Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
As I’ve been making an effort to replace apps with the browser version of the service. It’s so abundantly clear that companies don’t want you using their website.
Even if they don’t outright cripple functionality, they’ll hound you endlessly to install the app.
It’s infuriating to say the least.
finder585@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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”.
Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It’s because you have control over your browser, but they control their app and all its trackers, ads, etc
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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.