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This and many other features need to be bundled up behind a single permission prompt that gives the domain permission to be an app instead of a web site—and tha
by wtallis 5y ago
This and many other features need to be bundled up behind a single permission prompt that gives the domain permission to be an app instead of a web site—and that permission should probably come with stricter restrictions on loading third-party resources.
- Spivak 5y agoIt would be tough to make such a thing work because then every site would annoy you into being an app.
- wtallis 5y agoHence why the invasive permissions need to be paired with restrictions that impose a tradeoff and incentivize sites with a more traditional web page usage model to not classify themselves as app-style sites.
- bartaxyz 5y agoIn Chrome, there's already a toolbar displaying that you can install the website as PWA. In addition, a lot of websites already try to stop you from using the web in favour of using the app (e. g. Reddit). So, I don't see this as a new annoyance.