cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/mrlovenstein/p/1386847/apprehension
cross-posted from: https://crust.piefed.social/c/comicstrips@lemmy.world/p/58758/apprehension
Don’t even get me started on sites that automatically load the app when you go there on a phone.
Based om my experience with android but surely any mainstream smartphone works a bit like this.
That isn’t up to the website necessarily. Every app states what links it supports to your phone, that will open the appropriate app automatically. On android you can change this behaviour on a per link per app basis in
apps>app-name>"open by default"Even if that is how it’s working, it’s up to the website to send that command. The app isn’t looking at the URL you enter. That’s why you can force the browser to go to the desktop version of the site to actually get it to load. The URL is the same. In any case, the company controls the app and the website. It’s on them for how it works.
And even if you prevent it from loading the app, there’s probably still not going to be a website to load.
It’s annoying because it’s the default functionality, not that there is no way to get a website to load.
I fucking hate this functionality. Thankfully browsers let you disable it, even on iOS
Reddit is doing this to their site. Sucks when you get there from Google only to have an ad popup for their app and it breaks the page and can’t be removed
You can swap www. For old. And it usually works. For now
Yeah just annoying to have to swap the url when viewing different search results
I haven’t visited them on mobile as of late, but you could always click ‘continue’ on the chrome button and continue? unless this is an actual ad that ad blockers block
It’s now a full ad like banner on the bottom of the screen that blocks most of the text and prevents anything, no option to close / hide it either. Just use the app or leave
Not anymore. It’ll sorta just lock you out. The only solution is to view the site in the old way
Reason why I left reddit.
Also because I got banned.
Same, got shadow ban for no reason
I fucking hate that. Used to have Revolut but stopped using it. They been annoying me with constant emails if I won’t update my data so I went and tried deleting my account. DELETING IS ONLY AVAILABLE THROGUH AN APP. TO LOGIN YOU NEED TO PROOF TPUR IDENTITY.
The comes research with the findings that, as stated in TOS, it is possible to delete an account though emailing them directly. After like 30 emails between us they did delete it. Most of their replies were telling me I can only delete my account in app. Fuck Revolut.
Then you get the app and it’s just a browser and a skin for there website.
This app requires location permission… Precise location… And wireless metadata And phone/SMS And contacts And camera
+ 80 trackers.
But with enhanced tracking, as a little treat
Yo man, you cannot run this app just to see the website without letting us to see your call history first.
Every bank in my country
And their apps refuse to run on custom ROMs or an unlocked bootloader.
Banks are the one thing that should use apps. Browsers have too many security issues.
The bigger issue is them using the google integrity bullshit, that’s not necessary.
They should ask to use app, not require it. Users are not babies
So you never sign into your account on the desktop (browser - I don’t believe any banks have window/macos applications)?
My bank’s app hangs and crashes my phone.
Until web standard can agree to have device bound session, it won’t happen. Cookie stealer malware is just too dangerous to perform financial transaction. So maybe for read only stuff it is fine
Just today, my health insurance told me i had to install their app to schedule a specialist visit. After installing it and logging in, I tapped the “specialists” button, and it proceeded to switch out of the app to my browser and connect to their mobile website.
ETA: as a cherry on top, these instructions were on their website, which I was looking at on my desktop. I had to switch to my phone first.
You don’t understand. Phone screens are a lot smaller so you need less code to run them.
Have you even considered how greedy you are wanting to use up so many tokens?
/s
Imagining someone generating the HTML, CSS and JS on the fly using Claude is killing me
No need for any of that PHP or Jinja or HTMX shite /s
Got an amber alert the other day. It linked to twitter to see more info including pics of the victim. I don’t have an account and couldn’t view it on mobile without jumping through a bunch of hoops. Wonder how much less effective it makes those alerts that you have to have an acct to see who was fucking kidnapped.
The amount of news sites where they post Twitter comments on there stories but you need a sign in to view. What’s the point of a public announcement service if you can’t find out without handing a company your information.
Same with most of the world using WhatsApp for everything
I miss when UI was designed to streamline the user experience. Nowadays it makes it so hostile that you want their app in order to be able to interact with the service.
And they do this because apps are the wild west of stealing user info when compared to internet
I want a new browser than completely “reskins” the most important websites. There is Reader View on firefox which I wish would be a bit more expanded and flexible. And maybe something like web archive but it only P2P shares the simplified reader view of articles and pages. For that simpler AI models could be very useful.
If there was just one country on earth that would say no to intellectual property laws. You could put a central repository server there and mirror most of the internet and make it accessible again. I’d gladly pay a few bucks a month for that. Maybe combine it with a VPN.
But the app UX is even worse. It just gives you access to more functionality.
It gives them more access, makes them better able to invade your privacy and snoop around in your phone.
Plus, they want their icon on your phone’s home screen so you’ll remember them again next time.
Okay, I know I know that 99.9% of humans own a mobile phone, and the percentage that own a computer is much lower, but I’ve always hated how websites (first noticed with Google Search and Facebook) stopped caring about rendering for desktops and just utilised 30% of the screen width. Half the internet is a skinny portrait mode on a landscape screen and has been for ages
Fucking Instagram and their Web interface. Try to get the maximum video size on a horizontal screen. Bonus points when a horizontal video is uploaded to their vertical frame optimised viewer.
I did the math before: it was literally less than 1% of my screen. There’s no full screen feature.
Not like it cost them even a measurable amount of money to have one developed. They keep it awful intentionally to get you to install the app. Fuck companies like that.
Pretty sure narrow text width has been a thing for ages, even before smartphones. Unless you mean a newer, narrower style I guess. It’s easier to read when you can see both ends of a line at the same time so even letters are written on portrait paper.
And I’m not a web developer, but if I had to guess styling a page to limit the text width on a wide screen probably takes more effort, not less.
Yeah, good legibility is around 50-75 characters per line.
It’s skinny so that they can stuff the sides full of ads.
I have trouble reading across wide screens, though, is that just me?
On desktop you can change window sizes to what you want. Don’t like wide text? Use part of the screen. But the inverse is not true: if a site decides to stay skinny you can’t make it wide if that’s what you prefer.
This is why I miss square screens. And I miss proper UI/UX design which makes good use of screen real estate.
You don’t actually have to maximise your windows, you can just set them to your favourite ratio.
Omg, same, so same. But putting anything I need to read (like… anything in a browser usually) in a smaller window is fine. Librewolf letterboxing kinda does it for me.
If you don’t want to change the window size for whatever reason, I find that reader mode (F9) solves this problem pretty well.
So the 30 characters wide texts are a thing? And here i always thought that was a issue with one of my userstyles.
Usually I just stop using their website too. Because fuck them.
Because I know they’re FUCKING UP TO SOMETHING
Hello, yes I am just a desktop user doing um desktop things. Can’t install apps sorry
And I’m the final boss: a desktop Linux user with noscript.
Maybe if we add some AI? All AI? AI in AI? Hold on, stay! C’mon! We’re only going to try to figure out how much you make so we can steal your money by giving you some shit products in return! And AI will take your job…hey come back! C’mon!
Some people are starting to get worn out by AI being pushed so aggressively and we need a way to make them interested again, so, hear me out:
AI powered AI
No more prompt engineering, you can just ask an AI to prompt an AI in an Agentic™ way and the AI will summarize the responses from the AI!
