WARNING: LONG READ about apps privacy and browsers --- As you all know, or should know, those big commercial and usually American enterprises don't provide their services to you for free: they do that to make money off you. Duh. ...
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As you all know, or should know, those big commercial and usually American enterprises don't provide their services to you for free: they do that to make money off you. Duh.
You may not pay any money, but you pay with your privacy. The more they know about you, the more money you're worth.
That's an important reason for why they want you to use an app. It may be costly to develop an app, especially for several different platforms, but you can extract so much more data from someone's phone than via a mobile website...
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Daniel Supernault, developer of
Pixelfed and
Loops (yes, he's a busy little bee), understands that: no app required 🙌
There is an app (which he also wrote), but you don't need it: a browser will do 💯
The browser: the app-for-anythingLet this be an example for everybody who develops anything: there is a universal app, for every platform and phone, that can be used for (almost) anything: a modern web browser 😎
Develop a good (mobile) website and you have every possible platform covered, and you don't need to bug your users to install Yet Another App™ on their phones.
Unless, of course, your app needs the kind of access that a browser will normally deny. There can be legitimate reasons for that in all kinds of cases, but more often than not there aren't.
A browser is the designated piece of software to access, process, display and interact with online resources. It's specifically designed for that purpose and has very much matured over the last few decades.
Plus, people who are aware of all the bad sh|t that even a web app can do, can configure their browsers so that they keep strict control over what an app can or cannot do.
Things like
uBlock Origin,
Privacy Badger and
JShelter and strict security settings.
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