Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Love how every website now has a popup that tells you "our website is hot dogshit, download the app instead" And then the app is just an Electron wrapper around the same JS they could have put on the website if they didn't hate you personally 711915
gepandz.bsky.social @gepandz.bsky.social · 23/05/2026The other reason they want you to use their app is that you can't install uBlock Origin nor Privacy Badger nor any other ad-blocker in their app, so no real way to opt out of their invasive tracking systems I guess you could run your own pi-hole and tunnel through that, but that's not easy for most 060
Jan Aagaard @janaagaard.com · 23/05/2026One difference is that apps tend to remember you, whereas web apps do not. Most browsers do not allow storing a cookie for more than 400 days, and I absolutely have apps that I use less frequently than once a year. For me, this is a big win for the app right there. 100
Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 23/05/2026um, a popup saying "to read pavel, please download the pavelapp™ instead" happened... 010
tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 23/05/2026Well now to be fair they just want to extra super duper sure they can use whatever tracking cookies they want 040
Amelia @amelia-mesdag.bsky.social · 23/05/2026They just want to scoop up your data like a melon baller and send you push notifications for "engagement" 030
🚲insert into haunted select uid from partisans where party = "R" @db-user.bsky.social · 23/05/2026part of the story here is to dodge ai scraping that's driving up site costs and just feeding people the same info without the ad impressions the other part is to outright capture traffic and personal info 040
daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 23/05/2026best part of the app switch is that you can't autofill your password anymore because it's an app 020
