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Could you please fuckıng not, Urban Dictionary? (lemmy.sdf.org)

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[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 192 points 7 months ago

Why the fuck would anybody install an APP to use a website?

(Puts on clown face) "Sure, I'll install this program on my pocket computer from the Urban Dictionary to save the time it would take me to open a web browser and type in the URL of it, all it costs is me giving direct access to my stored personal data and real-time activities"

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 7 months ago

The state of people blindly using apps for everything is atrocious.

“But it saves me a 1USD on my fast food burger!”

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago

Fast food charges you around double if you don't use the app. I think it's mostly about tiered pricing. They want the money from those willing to pay $15 for a burger AND they still want the money from people who won't pay more than $10. This way they get both.

[-] kadotux@lemmings.world 17 points 7 months ago

Fast food charges you around double if you don't use the app.

In the US, I guess? Not where I come from

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 5 points 7 months ago

In Italy it's also like this

You literally pay double the price if you order without using the coupons found in the app for McDonald's, Burger King and KFC

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 months ago

Makes sense. I don’t eat fast food, so I didn’t know. But no way am I installing apps for… basically any commercial thing.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Same here, but I do eat fast food on occasion. Their small discounts are not worth enough to compromise my phone's integrity and my privacy.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 months ago

I just looked at their app permissions, and woof. It’s almost as bad as Threads.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Wendy's order through app showing around a 45% discount.

It's not a small discount. Of course just using the app isn't the only hoop. You also have to order correctly to maximize the discount.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 3 points 7 months ago

Those kind of apps have a special place on my phone: petercxy's shelter (don't install it from play store because in order to meet the Google requirements it has been nerfed). Apps installed there use a dedicated throwaway Google account and are completely disabled with a toggle on my launcher. (Lawnchair 2 has a toggle in the drawer for it)

If an app is installed in shelter it's on a completely separate partition and can't access any file or photo on your main one. And once you quit, they are all disabled like if the phone is turned off

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[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

McDonald's charges a lot more without the app tho

fun fact: McDonald's app has tighter "security" than my bank app and won't even work on rooted devices

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

I can't believe that there's a whole generation of people who voluntarily installed a McDonald's app. I guess marketing works...

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

"but i can save a dollar by letting mcdonalds root itself deep inside my large intestine!"

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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 9 points 7 months ago

McDonald's app is the fastest way to check if you installed magisk+shamiko correctly

[-] Shawdow194@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

LOL! Glad I'm not the only one who thinks the Mickie app is locked down

McDonalds needs updates more often than my credit card app...

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Seriously. Apps are stupid. They exist solely to steal your data, and they do that by asking for insane permissions.

And the overwhelming majority of this could be avoided if consumers didnt just straight up braindead refuse to use the actual website because "hurr hurrr I do nothing wrong why I have to hide anything I WANT MAH CONVENIENCE! REAL OR PERCEIVED!"

[-] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 12 points 7 months ago

No, only stupid apps are stupid.

Webpages are webpages. Apps are apps. Just don't use webpages that are shitty apps, don't use apps that are shitty webpages, never let a webpage display an ad, never accept a closed-source app and you'll be fine.

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[-] sunstoned@lemmus.org 11 points 7 months ago

Especially with Firefox and derivatives allowing you to run the webpage in an app-like way! I do this for everything from the public transit website in my city to financial sites.

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 10 points 7 months ago

Here's a real reason: It's generally more optimized and smooth than the web version. And before you say that's because the websites purposely nerf themselves, one of the best examples to support my statement is Mastodon, which is slow and laggy on the website but fast and smooth in the app.

[-] mystik@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Here's the REAL reason: Apps grant Developers/Content owners more control/metrics/data about the user to feed their advertisers, which translates to more revenue. It's way easier to hoover up data about the user outside of the browser sandbox, and in apps.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago

But this urban dictionary app looks like some webapp. Also this slight smoothness costs your personally identifiable data for such apps

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

How often do I need to find a reference in Urban Dictionary?

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[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 7 points 7 months ago

eh, if the app is actually native and i use it a lot I'd rather have it installed...
Don't see the point of WebView/web apps packaged as mobile ones tho....

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[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Reading this on Voyager app… errr well hummm

[-] lengau@midwest.social 9 points 7 months ago

Lemmy (and Mastodon) apps do IMO provide added value over the websites, but AFAICT the Urban Dictionary app would be better off as a web shortcut on one's home screen

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Well it looks like the app adds motion and fitness abilities… /s

[-] lengau@midwest.social 5 points 7 months ago

I stand corrected! Brb, downloading the app and giving it full access to my devices.

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That’s more like it. We’re glad to have you as ~~product~~ customer.

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 147 points 7 months ago

Why the fuck did your dumb ass install a fucking app for a website you can easily navigate and access?

[-] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

Is that actually their app? It looks like a poorly designed PWA.

[-] bbuez@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago

Every time you see "try it in our app!"

a poor developers soul was sacrificed to make a PWA.

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[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Websites can never request this data.

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Program with attitude?

[-] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago

in case you aren't joking: Progressive Web App. Something apple doesn't like much now

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 69 points 7 months ago

How else are they supposed to provide ads that are relevant to the 2.3Km/h you are walking on day 17 of walking?

Critical data they are missing there for the advertising partners.

:P

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[-] Ginger666@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago

Why do people have the need to install an app on your phone that has access to everything when it does the same thing the browser on your phone will do?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 27 points 7 months ago

It needs your fitness data so it knows which of the many thousands of slang sayings insulting your weight it can use.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

RIP

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Lol, how about eat shit and die instead?

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[-] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

+1 for the juxtaposition of background and message

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