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Perhaps they want an unpleasant mobile web view, to herd more people towards the blessed app? There's only a few ways to monetize a site like this, and selling

Perhaps they want an unpleasant mobile web view, to herd more people towards the blessed app? There's only a few ways to monetize a site like this, and selling sensor, identity, and behavioral data from phones is one of them. Maximizing their bean count would dictate not leaving that money on the table.

guywhocodes 8y ago
Of course they do, the amount of data you can gather in an app compared to what you can get in a browser...
- guntars 8y ago
  What are some things you can collect from a mobile app (without asking for outrageous permissions and uploading user’s contacts, etc) that you cant collect on a web app?
  - supernovae 8y ago
    its mostly to guarantee ad views... mobile web clients can filter/change/block content where the app forces it in your face.
  - imglorp 8y ago
    Here is the permission list from the Play store. There's a number of questionable items on here that are not needed to display stories and comments. This app has access to: Identity find accounts on the device add or remove accounts Contacts find accounts on the device Location approximate location (network-based) Photos/Media/Files read the contents of your USB storage modify or delete the contents of your USB storage Storage read the contents of your USB storage modify or delete the contents of your USB storage Device & app history read sensitive log data Other receive data from Internet view network connections create accounts and set passwords full network access read sync settings draw over other apps use accounts on the device prevent device from sleeping toggle sync on and off install shortcuts view network connections create accounts and set passwords full network access read sync settings use accounts on the device prevent device from sleeping toggle sync on and off
m-p-3 8y ago
At this point, scrap the mobile view if you're going to half-ass it.

guywhocodes 8y ago

Of course they do, the amount of data you can gather in an app compared to what you can get in a browser...

guntars 8y ago
What are some things you can collect from a mobile app (without asking for outrageous permissions and uploading user’s contacts, etc) that you cant collect on a web app?
- supernovae 8y ago
  its mostly to guarantee ad views... mobile web clients can filter/change/block content where the app forces it in your face.
- imglorp 8y ago
  Here is the permission list from the Play store. There's a number of questionable items on here that are not needed to display stories and comments. This app has access to: Identity find accounts on the device add or remove accounts Contacts find accounts on the device Location approximate location (network-based) Photos/Media/Files read the contents of your USB storage modify or delete the contents of your USB storage Storage read the contents of your USB storage modify or delete the contents of your USB storage Device & app history read sensitive log data Other receive data from Internet view network connections create accounts and set passwords full network access read sync settings draw over other apps use accounts on the device prevent device from sleeping toggle sync on and off install shortcuts view network connections create accounts and set passwords full network access read sync settings use accounts on the device prevent device from sleeping toggle sync on and off

m-p-3 8y ago

At this point, scrap the mobile view if you're going to half-ass it.