I'm not installing your shitty, invasive app

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8 Comments

SaltSong@startrek.website · 14 pts · 158d (2 replies)

Amen. The web page will be fine.

The web page will be fine.

partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 158d (1 reply)

There's a corollary to the OPs premise with regard to web pages.

"I'm not enabling scripts on your shitty, invasive site"

SaltSong@startrek.website · 3 pts · 158d

That, too.

Ascrod@midwest.social · 7 pts · 158d (3 replies)

Used to love dasharez0ne until I learned Drew Toothpaste stole it from its original creator.

But yeah this is still accurate. Fuck apps.

seahorse@midwest.social · 4 pts · 158d (2 replies)

I heard rumblings about something like that happening. Do you have details?

Ascrod@midwest.social · 7 pts · 158d (1 reply)

The information has become hard to find and there hasn't been much discussion about it in openly searchable places. This is all I have.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240224150713/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QBwTeS3c5v1CJYQys68wBECrexEh4I1yWWtWT93ilWM/preview

seahorse@midwest.social · 4 pts · 158d

That's fuckin' awful

python@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 158d

I'm so bummed out that Progressive Web Apps never took the foothold that they deserve 🥺 They're the best of both worlds - no more permissions or access than a standard website, but they also work offline and can send notifications like a native app.