Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 1 month agoMost “apps” are just http web hooks to a regular website backend with extra tracking telemetry. So a website working as a PWA should be enough for everyone. I hate how everything has to be a fucking app, because it doesn’t need to be
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
If phone OSes made it so there’s less friction to save a web page as an icon on your desktop it would help to resolve that issue I think.
Dampyr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think that’s only partly true as companies, especially big ones, want the telemetry and control of a native app instead of just a web page
Hazor@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They also want the ability to make you agree to a TOS with an arbitration clause so you can’t sue them when your wife dies because they screwed up her food.
kiagam@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Proper PWA websites save very well to phone home screens (like voyager for Lemmy!)
uis@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It’s just two taps in browser to get it on home screen.
flames5123@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s so easy, even on iOS. Just tap share and add to Home Screen. It’s probably just as easy on android.
ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It’s very easy.
Chrome let’s you do “install” websites to home screen, Firefox allows saving shortcuts to home screen.
The annoying thing is that you can’t save them to the app drawer (at least on vanilla android), so if you have a clean home screen you have to sacrifice that.
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Yep, you’re 100% right. Not sure why I thought it was high friction. I feel like I confused trying to put an icon for an image on my home screen (gym app’s sign in QR code) with sending a web page to the home screen.
Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
At least on android I was able to just add a link to the home screen in Firefox.