Source: @MrLovenstein@mastodon.social

  • solstice@lemmy.world
    114·
    2 years ago

    I’m so sick and tired of every single website and service trying to push an app on me. No, I don’t want to download your stupid shitty app, I’ve got dozens and I don’t want another one that I don’t use that interrupts me to push stupid notifications. Now get off my lawn!

    • xpinchx@lemmy.world
      13·
      2 years ago

      Same. I have to use bill.com for a contract, I swear they made their website as mobile un-friendly as possible because they push their app so hard. Like, I use you to submit one invoice a month I don’t need an app to do that, fuck off.

      • theangryseal@lemmy.world
        12·
        2 years ago

        They can’t track your every interest to sell to other assholes if you don’t use their software though.

        Now, don’t you feel sorry for the poor companies who can’t make money off of you when you’re on sites completely unrelated to theirs?

        It just breaks my heart.

    • MioMar@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 years ago

      Hell yeah. I was furious when I learned that you “nEed To InsTalL tHe McDoNaLds ApP FoR tHe CoDe!” for their monopoly-game. Wtf?! Just give me my fucking mcsundae-coupon right now, goddamn.

        • UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml
          21·
          2 years ago

          The issue of companies wanting to force apps while you don’t want another app. Instant apps are a halfway point between a webpage and having to download an app, the app’s never actually installed on your phone. It’s not much different than a site with heavy CSS.

    • killbot_gamma@midwest.social
      0·
      2 years ago

      Same with tiktok. they used to let you watch videos without the app, now they won’t let you unmute the video. one of my frineds keeps trying to send me tiktoks and i’m like, this is worthless.

      • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
        1·
        2 years ago

        No, it works. You just slide a puzzle piece over, then it reloads. Then it plays muted, you have to unmute it and then it’s half-way through so you have to restart the video. There see, easy! And by the time you get to watch it in a tiny ass screen you have already seen it muted about 3-5 times give or take.

  • DaveNa@lemmy.ml
    27·
    2 years ago

    This is the meme that made me create an account here. Barely using reddit now, but I noticed these last days they were pushing lukewarm content to the top. And a lot of content on phone web browsers was/is locked, could only read the first 2 or 3 answers.

    • ElegantBiscuit@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 years ago

      And the quality of discussion gets lower every time I go on. Has been for years, incrementally, but the rate really increased after June 30. I used to be able to get pretty far down through 4 or 5 worldnews threads before I ran into something so stupid I closed the entire window, but now it happens on just about every thread I open.

      • DaveNa@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        It was some posts, a lot, not all of them. Maybe it was a bug at one time when they started to implement their new API changes. I don’t know, and I don’t care at the moment. :)

  • Pika@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 years ago

    I actively avoid sites that do this, if I find that I’m on the site enough to Warrant getting the app I’ll get the app. I actually didn’t realize that Reddit enforced this until about 5 or 6 months ago because they didn’t enforce that when I first started using reddit, I had already moved over to third party applications before they implemented the system. Not that it matters much anymore, I uninstalled any apps I had for the platform and blocked it for the house. I’m done with it

  • festus@lemmy.ca
    2·
    2 years ago

    Ugh for the longest time the investment firm I use had one product locked away on their app. Thankfully I checked today and I can sign up and use it on the web!

  • Neirin@feddit.uk
    1·
    2 years ago

    Threads is view-only without the app, so no using it on PC. Probably because they wouldn’t be able to get as much data. I would never use it anyway but it’s so stupid.

    • moonmeow@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      You can at least view threads without logging in? That’s better than instagram usually forces login. Still won’t use it.

      • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
        1·
        2 years ago

        And instagram is still a lot better than Twitter which just redirects you to nothing at all. Now I just wish news sites would stop linking to twitter because I can’t look at any of the garbage that’s been posted.