• finder@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Even 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”.

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      8 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
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        7 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.

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          6 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.