This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
Why the fuck would anybody install an APP to use a website?
(Puts on clown face) "Sure, I'll install this program on my pocket computer from the Urban Dictionary to save the time it would take me to open a web browser and type in the URL of it, all it costs is me giving direct access to my stored personal data and real-time activities"
The state of people blindly using apps for everything is atrocious.
“But it saves me a 1USD on my fast food burger!”
Fast food charges you around double if you don't use the app. I think it's mostly about tiered pricing. They want the money from those willing to pay $15 for a burger AND they still want the money from people who won't pay more than $10. This way they get both.
Fast food charges you around double if you don't use the app.
In the US, I guess? Not where I come from
In Italy it's also like this
You literally pay double the price if you order without using the coupons found in the app for McDonald's, Burger King and KFC
Makes sense. I don’t eat fast food, so I didn’t know. But no way am I installing apps for… basically any commercial thing.
Same here, but I do eat fast food on occasion. Their small discounts are not worth enough to compromise my phone's integrity and my privacy.
I just looked at their app permissions, and woof. It’s almost as bad as Threads.
It's not a small discount. Of course just using the app isn't the only hoop. You also have to order correctly to maximize the discount.
Those kind of apps have a special place on my phone: petercxy's shelter (don't install it from play store because in order to meet the Google requirements it has been nerfed). Apps installed there use a dedicated throwaway Google account and are completely disabled with a toggle on my launcher. (Lawnchair 2 has a toggle in the drawer for it)
If an app is installed in shelter it's on a completely separate partition and can't access any file or photo on your main one. And once you quit, they are all disabled like if the phone is turned off
McDonald's charges a lot more without the app tho
fun fact: McDonald's app has tighter "security" than my bank app and won't even work on rooted devices
I can't believe that there's a whole generation of people who voluntarily installed a McDonald's app. I guess marketing works...
"but i can save a dollar by letting mcdonalds root itself deep inside my large intestine!"
McDonald's app is the fastest way to check if you installed magisk+shamiko correctly
LOL! Glad I'm not the only one who thinks the Mickie app is locked down
McDonalds needs updates more often than my credit card app...
Seriously. Apps are stupid. They exist solely to steal your data, and they do that by asking for insane permissions.
And the overwhelming majority of this could be avoided if consumers didnt just straight up braindead refuse to use the actual website because "hurr hurrr I do nothing wrong why I have to hide anything I WANT MAH CONVENIENCE! REAL OR PERCEIVED!"
No, only stupid apps are stupid.
Webpages are webpages. Apps are apps. Just don't use webpages that are shitty apps, don't use apps that are shitty webpages, never let a webpage display an ad, never accept a closed-source app and you'll be fine.
Especially with Firefox and derivatives allowing you to run the webpage in an app-like way! I do this for everything from the public transit website in my city to financial sites.
Here's a real reason: It's generally more optimized and smooth than the web version. And before you say that's because the websites purposely nerf themselves, one of the best examples to support my statement is Mastodon, which is slow and laggy on the website but fast and smooth in the app.
Here's the REAL reason: Apps grant Developers/Content owners more control/metrics/data about the user to feed their advertisers, which translates to more revenue. It's way easier to hoover up data about the user outside of the browser sandbox, and in apps.
But this urban dictionary app looks like some webapp. Also this slight smoothness costs your personally identifiable data for such apps
eh, if the app is actually native and i use it a lot I'd rather have it installed...
Don't see the point of WebView/web apps packaged as mobile ones tho....
Reading this on Voyager app… errr well hummm
Lemmy (and Mastodon) apps do IMO provide added value over the websites, but AFAICT the Urban Dictionary app would be better off as a web shortcut on one's home screen
Well it looks like the app adds motion and fitness abilities… /s
I stand corrected! Brb, downloading the app and giving it full access to my devices.
That’s more like it. We’re glad to have you as ~~product~~ customer.
Why the fuck did your dumb ass install a fucking app for a website you can easily navigate and access?
Is that actually their app? It looks like a poorly designed PWA.
Every time you see "try it in our app!"
a poor developers soul was sacrificed to make a PWA.
Websites can never request this data.
Program with attitude?
in case you aren't joking: Progressive Web App. Something apple doesn't like much now
How else are they supposed to provide ads that are relevant to the 2.3Km/h you are walking on day 17 of walking?
Critical data they are missing there for the advertising partners.
:P
Why do people have the need to install an app on your phone that has access to everything when it does the same thing the browser on your phone will do?
It needs your fitness data so it knows which of the many thousands of slang sayings insulting your weight it can use.
Lol, how about eat shit and die instead?
RIP