Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
finder585@lemmy.world 11 hours agoEven 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”.
Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 10 hours 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 9 hours 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 8 hours 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.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 minutes ago
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.