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minus-squarefinderlinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months ago Even if they don’t outright cripple functionality, they’ll hound you endlessly to install the app. Still don’t understand the logic of doing that. It’s like saying, “Our website is nigh unusable, please install our app instead. We pinky promise our app works”.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•2 months agoIt’s because you have control over your browser, but they control their app and all its trackers, ads, etc
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months agoYep. They want you to use apps, cause all the permissions you give the app makes it much easier for them to harvest all your data for marketing and selling purposes.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 months agoThat’s exactly it. Easy to block ads and trackers on a website, but more difficult or impossible on some apps. One of the banking apps won’t show the total balance of the account unless I’m using the app. How ridiculous.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoThey know that a lot of people would rather have it work a little better by getting an app, if they keep reminding people it’s an option. Even if “better” is just lack of nags. It’s sad. We need a digital privacy law so that an app can’t be more invasive than the website.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-22 months ago Even if “better” is just lack of nags. Well, they just swap nags from “download our app” to “rate our app” no matter what you do, you’ll be nagged…
Still don’t understand the logic of doing that.
It’s like saying,
“Our website is nigh unusable, please install our app instead. We pinky promise our app works”.
It’s because you have control over your browser, but they control their app and all its trackers, ads, etc
Yep. They want you to use apps, cause all the permissions you give the app makes it much easier for them to harvest all your data for marketing and selling purposes.
That’s exactly it. Easy to block ads and trackers on a website, but more difficult or impossible on some apps.
One of the banking apps won’t show the total balance of the account unless I’m using the app. How ridiculous.
They know that a lot of people would rather have it work a little better by getting an app, if they keep reminding people it’s an option.
Even if “better” is just lack of nags.
It’s sad. We need a digital privacy law so that an app can’t be more invasive than the website.
Well, they just swap nags from “download our app” to “rate our app” no matter what you do, you’ll be nagged…