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Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The problem is most apps are just low-effort web app conversions.

If only that. Web apps are relatively well sandboxed. Most dedicated apps (that should be websites) are designed to harvest as much data as they can and spam you with notifications/ads.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hell I use my garden diary selfhosted service via a webapp (hortusfox).
Just put a direct link on my homescreen. With the included favicon it almost looks like a native app.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 2 months ago

Yep! Most of my "apps" are just web app shortcuts or self hosted PWAs