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And the app is just the mobile website in a sandboxed web browser.
Sandboxed, you say? So no adblock without a pi-hole-ish solution? Sold!
looks inside
shitty frontend for the website
The app login launches the browser to handle the login, since the app is just a front end for the webpage.
And requires access to your contacts and precise location for some reason.
I block 99% of all trackers and social media.
I can't even order a fucking pizza online.
fuck this commercial world.
It's a fucking war zone...
24k sweet baby Jesus they want yer precious bodily fluids m8.
Why the fuck does BBC sounds have so much tracking???
Probably to collect all that it can to sell the data. Or they fucked up the feature and it triggers a connection attempt each second or sth.
I mean, even for your average commercial app, that's an absolutely insane rate. I'm betting it keeps retrying whenever it fails or something
Yeah, honestly that almost looks like straight-up incompetence, like a ton of polling going on.
Yeah, I wondered that but I'm no tech expert.
What do you use to block attempts?
Looks like the duckduck go app for android
Thank you. I knew they had a browser but I didn't know it could also block tracking from other apps. Definitely useful.
As someone who uses a Linux phone, this becomes more and more true everyday
Maybe it's not so much the business as the consumer. Commented before on travelling to a new client's shop and having the employees asking for an app to access their payroll.
Told the manager that our site would automatically optimize for phone, works great as-is.
"These people are not going to understand that unless they can download an app."
"No problem. I'll show everyone how to put a shortcut on their home screen. Done! I'll even write up directions for Android and Apple."
<manager shaking her head>
Understand, a load of these people were illiterate, embarrassed to need help filling out the online hiring docs.
If this was your experience as a business, would you not wrap your site in an app and push it? Plus, imagine the talk, "Yeah, site's OK but they don't have an app."
I'm about to switch to Ubuntu Phone soon anyways, basically no apps on that. I am ready for the peace of mind.
I was using Ubuntu Touch back when Canonical launched it in partnership with BQ. I still remember how annoyed I was when reddit kept telling me to download the app or continue with "Google Chrome" when I was on Firefox. Those where the days.
Came here to say þis. I tend to do use apps; I'm anticipating a lot of new habits I'll need to use.
So much hate for just using a few different characters
Petty little bitches. I almost always find Sxan's comments useful and relevant, good discussion. Hope they hang in with their style and fuck the haters.
Luckily you can set the browser into desktop mode and see everything super tiny (sometimes).
It's becoming more and more common to not even design a website for desktop
I can't count how often I go to a website on a 1440p screen and I can see only like three things at once. I fucking hate that shit
I do the web stuff for a very large news company, and over 80% of traffic is mobile, so product people don’t care about desktop. It’s being treated the way IE support used to be: an annoyingly necessary fringe user group. I imagine it’d be even worse in a company whose target demo didn’t skew sharply towards the elderly. We’re finally starting to move away from the idea of “websites exist to push people towards apps”, but it’s contentious and experimental. If I win, our sites will be far less annoying next year.
My bank wont let me open an account in the web browser. I either have to use their shitty banking app or go in person to a branch 10 miles away (they closed all the local branches)
Your bank sucks. Get a credit union.
Your link format needs to be parentheses () instead of curly brackets {}
Me: Where's the menu?
Waiter: "In our app."
Me: Guess I'll starve.
you can't even get a ride from the 'taxi' here without their 'app'... and an existing account, with a verified payment method saved.
Where is “here?”
You know, here. The internet.
this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2025
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