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I use the Facebook site added to my homescreen rather than a native app. Uses way less space & does everything I want Facebook to be able to do. I don't want p
by jaffathecake 9y ago
I use the Facebook site added to my homescreen rather than a native app. Uses way less space & does everything I want Facebook to be able to do.
I don't want push notifications from every site, but in this case it's valuable.
I wish it worked offline-first, but I know it's something they're looking at.
- johnny_reilly 9y agoI'm the same - I've generally taking to avoiding native apps wherever it's possible. So I don't have the Twitter app anymore as Twitter is now a PWA: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2017/how-we-built-twitter-lite.html https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-sourc... Similarly Facebook is just fine without the app and I'm happy with it. It has notifications etc. I'd like it if it was offline first but I'm more than happy with it as is.
- dccoolgai 9y agoNative apps are the new desktop apps. OK for gaming, overkill and gaping privacy hole for everything else.
- sidlls 9y agoBecause web apps are certainly very good at protecting privacy.
- dccoolgai 9y ago"To read news on this site, you must give permission to: Your phone Your camera All your files " I've never seen that on a web app, but it's de rigeur for native mobile.
- sidlls 9y agoMeanwhile webapps can potentially report on everything you do that touches your browser and at most you might have to acknowledge a cookie stored on your browser. News readers requesting that level of access is bad, but at least they tell you when they're invading your privacy.
- curun1r 9y agoAs a counterpoint, I'm reading and commenting in this thread using a dedicated native app for reading HN. I find the whole experience to be better. Loading HN in a mobile browser is just painful by comparison.