Source: @MrLovenstein@mastodon.social
I'm so sick and tired of every single website and service trying to push an app on me. No, I don't want to download your stupid shitty app, I've got dozens and I don't want another one that I don't use that interrupts me to push stupid notifications. Now get off my lawn!
Hell yeah. I was furious when I learned that you "nEed To InsTalL tHe McDoNaLds ApP FoR tHe CoDe!" for their monopoly-game. Wtf?! Just give me my fucking mcsundae-coupon right now, goddamn.
Same. I have to use bill.com for a contract, I swear they made their website as mobile un-friendly as possible because they push their app so hard. Like, I use you to submit one invoice a month I don't need an app to do that, fuck off.
They can’t track your every interest to sell to other assholes if you don’t use their software though.
Now, don’t you feel sorry for the poor companies who can’t make money off of you when you’re on sites completely unrelated to theirs?
It just breaks my heart.
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Thank the gods for Firefox.
Threads is view-only without the app, so no using it on PC. Probably because they wouldn't be able to get as much data. I would never use it anyway but it's so stupid.
You can at least view threads without logging in? That's better than instagram usually forces login. Still won't use it.
And instagram is still a lot better than Twitter which just redirects you to nothing at all. Now I just wish news sites would stop linking to twitter because I can't look at any of the garbage that's been posted.
Wow. Did not know that. That's crazy. Let's cripple something running on a more powerful processor and with a bigger screen and full keyboard? That's just backwards and terrible.
Not backwards for them maybe. They will frame it as being a mobile-optimized experience that captures your (whatever), but of course it is monitoring your gyro right now to determine whether you're sitting upright, lying in your bed, or ... something else.
I will never use Pinterest because of this shit. I just want to see the pic I found on Google, I will not download your bullshit to see it.
Same with tiktok. they used to let you watch videos without the app, now they won't let you unmute the video. one of my frineds keeps trying to send me tiktoks and i'm like, this is worthless.
No, it works. You just slide a puzzle piece over, then it reloads. Then it plays muted, you have to unmute it and then it's half-way through so you have to restart the video. There see, easy! And by the time you get to watch it in a tiny ass screen you have already seen it muted about 3-5 times give or take.
I don't have an account and I watched videos with sound today on both mobile and desktop and honestly that shit is better without sound.
This is extremely true for modern social media sites. Normal news sites used to push their apps too, but I guess this fad has passed.
Social media? Bitch, this is the average restaurant experience now! OH We HaVe OuR meNu On OuR aPp
Yeah and you have no goddamn signal here GIVE ME A FUCKEN MENU
This is the meme that made me create an account here. Barely using reddit now, but I noticed these last days they were pushing lukewarm content to the top. And a lot of content on phone web browsers was/is locked, could only read the first 2 or 3 answers.
And the quality of discussion gets lower every time I go on. Has been for years, incrementally, but the rate really increased after June 30. I used to be able to get pretty far down through 4 or 5 worldnews threads before I ran into something so stupid I closed the entire window, but now it happens on just about every thread I open.
Just curious... When did regular comics become memes?
Around the time meme came to mean any joke in an image file format
Gary Larson was my favorite memer. Ever seen The Far Side memes?
See? Doesn't sound right at all.
Oh come on, who doesn't remember reading the meme strips in the Sunday morning paper?
When I got older I started enjoying meme books like Spider-Man, too.
Always has been by both the official definition of the word and the more modern internet use of it
Now that I think about it, maybe they always have been, sort of? The earliest memes I remember are the rage comics
Though, I feel like "meme" = funny relatable thing nowadays.
I've mainly used Reddit on PC and only used apps for porn (because in-app autoplay is so much better). Them disabling NSFW from API completely makes it completely useless for latter. Really hoping lemmy becomes the new big thing where you can scroll, comment, and jerk off. Possibly at the same time.
I actively avoid sites that do this, if I find that I'm on the site enough to Warrant getting the app I'll get the app. I actually didn't realize that Reddit enforced this until about 5 or 6 months ago because they didn't enforce that when I first started using reddit, I had already moved over to third party applications before they implemented the system. Not that it matters much anymore, I uninstalled any apps I had for the platform and blocked it for the house. I'm done with it
I wish I could act so decisively on that, but I still need Reddit access for the wisdom of others on solving issues.
So instead I just make sure I only browse it with Firefox, using uBlock Origin to prevent them from getting ad revenue.
It’s so easy nowadays to slap some bootstrap and Angular together to build a web frontend. It will work on every device if you don’t do crazy cutting-edge shit. I cannot comprehend why companies dig native apps so much.
D A T A H A R V E S T I N G
^ this. your browser is a user agent, it's working for you, to protect you from any schmuck who you have the misfortune of visiting. it has strict built-in privacy and security guarantees, which, while in no way interfere with the app's primary functionality, do interfere in their marketing bullshit and other kinds of spying.
with apps, you have none of that protective layer, instead there is a certain degree of implied trust which these parties love to abuse.
Maybe for some companies. For others the main draw card is push notifications and a big shiny icon for the product on your phone.
Goddamnit Reddit.
Reddit in a nutshell lmao
Yeah, it sucks because you can do really cool stuff with web apps these days but no, instead I need 140 native apps for basically every mobile service because their mobile websites are abhorrently designed and basically only exist to point you towards the app.