Source: @MrLovenstein@mastodon.social

  • Neirin@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • moonmeow@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You can at least view threads without logging in? That’s better than instagram usually forces login. Still won’t use it.

      • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        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.

  • solstice@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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!

    • MioMar@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • xpinchx@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        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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    1 year ago

    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.

    • sebinspace@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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

  • bleistift2@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    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.

      • b3nsn0w@pricefield.org
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        1 year ago

        ^ 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.