This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
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"
The state of people blindly using apps for everything is atrocious.
“But it saves me a 1USD on my fast food burger!”
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.
Fast food charges you around double if you don't use the app.
In the US, I guess? Not where I come from
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
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.
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.
I just looked at their app permissions, and woof. It’s almost as bad as Threads.
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.
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
I can't believe that there's a whole generation of people who voluntarily installed a McDonald's app. I guess marketing works...
"but i can save a dollar by letting mcdonalds root itself deep inside my large intestine!"
McDonald's app is the fastest way to check if you installed magisk+shamiko correctly
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...
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!"
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.
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.
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.
But this urban dictionary app looks like some webapp. Also this slight smoothness costs your personally identifiable data for such apps
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....
And that's why your phone's probably fucked up. Just install whatever, for the alleged convenience. But you already have a web browser, and you could simply make a bookmark to the website you visit frequently.
I get 3 days of battery life between charges on my phone without all that kind of bullshit on there. Running GrapheneOS on a supported Pixel with sandboxed Google Play services and zero social media apps that are not open source.
Btw, I use Arch
Actually I use CentOS, Raspbian, Windows 10, Android, and MacOS on my various computers.
My phone runs fine. I use some apps, and many others I use websites. My ebooks, music, podcasts, and video stuff uses apps, as well as some games, my banking app, and this lemmy app. I don't use apps for just about every other social media (mostly because I barely use em), for many websites etc. Email I do use the apps, as well as my robovac, and some other communication based ones. Also MFA apps.
Use of apps can be decided on a per use basis, as long as the person knows the possible issues stemming from them. It doesn't need to be all or nothing, and your solution doesn't necessarily work for everyone. It doesn't make you better than them, nor them better than you, just different. Stop assuming everyone should do things like you do.
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.
Reading this on Voyager app… errr well hummm
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
Well it looks like the app adds motion and fitness abilities… /s
I stand corrected! Brb, downloading the app and giving it full access to my devices.
That’s more like it. We’re glad to have you as ~~product~~ customer.
Why the fuck did your dumb ass install a fucking app for a website you can easily navigate and access?
Is that actually their app? It looks like a poorly designed PWA.
Every time you see "try it in our app!"
a poor developers soul was sacrificed to make a PWA.
Program with attitude?
in case you aren't joking: Progressive Web App. Something apple doesn't like much now
Websites can never request this data.
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
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?
RIP
+1 for the juxtaposition of background and message
Typing requires the accelerometer for some functions (like undo on Apple at least).
~~accelerometer does not require a permission to use, typing is provided by a 3rd party keyboard app.~~
nvm this is ios
stop staring at your phone
He says, looking at a screen