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These days it's more 'No, you can't use this site on your more-than-capable mobile device. Download our app instead! We want to run native code on your device t
by bluescrn 5y ago
These days it's more 'No, you can't use this site on your more-than-capable mobile device. Download our app instead! We want to run native code on your device to harvest even more data, and we want to make sure you don't block our ads!'
- asdff 5y agoEven when they offer the website they just break it with ads and heavy js. Places like cooking recipe websites and even new Reddit are terrible on mobile, borderline unusable entirely, because when you open a post, the comment thread is 1 inch wide on my phone with a 5 inch diagonal screen, and when you look at a recipe or a news article I only have about a postage stamp's worth of usable information surrounded by the junk. What's even the point of having such a huge phone if information density is so poor? I might as well have a 1"x1" screen if that's the dimensions websites are serving me for content.
- Veuxdo 5y agoThis isn't unique to mobile, on desktop news site articles probably use only 10% of the screen. It's kind of a shame that news delivery has come to this but the internet was never destined to make everything better.