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I agree with this, personally I stopped installing new apps a while ago and use the browser more. I see apps as just security and privacy nightmares and forget
by Eddy_Viscosity2 4y ago
I agree with this, personally I stopped installing new apps a while ago and use the browser more. I see apps as just security and privacy nightmares and forget about getting me to pay for them. Not to say I won't pay for good things, I have a number of subscriptions to various web services. There are a few exceptions where I have to install and use an app, and I resent each of those situations.
- jxramos 4y agoSame exact sentiment and behavior on my end. I’ve become what I call “app-averse”
- nmstoker 4y agoSimilar views here. It has recently become even worse as the Google Store no longer shows permissions.
- moneywoes 4y agoWould you be more likely to pay for a chrome extension?
- Eddy_Viscosity2 4y agoPotentially, provided I found it both useful and trustworthy.
- toyg 4y agoMost people don't even know what those are.
- bobkazamakis 4y agoI will never pay for a chrome extension because of the threat vector it allows for malicious actors. Yes, maybe you've got a great extension, but you require DOM access for every page I hit. Maybe I even trust you completely! But I can't trust that next week a bad actor buys you out and drops in a browser exploit.
- afpx 4y agoReminds me of people at work who blindly download and run github repos.
- xeromal 4y agoYeah, I always get the heeby jeebies when I'm about to use a new github repo at work. I tend to add creedence to projects that have loads of stars simply because someone would've complained in the issues section if some nefarious things were afoot. Obviously this isn't foolproof.
- klausjensen 4y agoI hate installing new apps as well and prefer mobile websites for most things. So on a new project, we just created an amazing, reponsive web-app. The most frequent feedback we got from users we showed it to was: "That's awesome! When is the (IOS/Android) app ready?" Sigh...
- tpoacher 4y agojust ship a launcher that opens the webpage with the address bar disabled :p
- klausjensen 4y agoApple will not accept that, unfortunately. :(
- bradgessler 4y agoThey will accept apps if it does something lame like implement login natively and have a bottom menu bar launcher. I hate to say it, but I’d probably pay apple a cut if they’d let me distribute PWAs through their App Store without going through the trouble of building a lame native wrapper.
- runjake 4y agoNo need to ship a launcher. You can already do this on iOS/iPadOS: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/add-a-web-link-to-home-screen-iphone-ipad/ https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/add-a-web-link-to-home-scre... When you tap on the icon on the home screen, it'll open up in Safari without any browser chrome visible.
- tpoacher 4y agoYes but then users know it's a weblink, and you're back to square one: "when is the Android/iOS app coming out?"
- quartzic 4y ago
- woojoo666 4y agoI use F-Droid for pretty much everything now. They've had zero malware, and are very good about privacy. While the app selection is much smaller, I've been pretty happy with what I find there, at least for apps that were released within the past few years. Examples: Florisboard, Aegis Authenticator, Material Files, Finamp, Newpipe, Shelter, Connectbot, and anything by Simple Mobile Tools
- cobertos 4y agoCommenting to remind myself to check these out later. I've also found SunTimes, SMS Backup+ (for SMS, MMS, Call log -> SMTP email), Markor, LawnChair, OpenCamera (specifically for manual camera control like exposure and focus), NewPipe, Aegis Authenticator, and FluffyChat to be really useful.
- xchip 4y agoThanks for your list of apps, there were a few I didn't know and that are what I had been searching for :)
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agoSimple mobile tools recently fucked their gallery by removing password protected hidden folders for some bullshit reason. The only fuckup they've done so far.
- bcraven 4y ago> Hi, apps like this can no longer show hidden files on Android 11+. It is a system limitation, not something we chose to do ourselves. https://www.reddit.com/r/SimpleMobileTools/comments/u5fopt/simple_gallery_why_has_the_ability_to_show_hidden/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SimpleMobileTools/comments/u5fopt/s...
- 2Gkashmiri 4y agohow are older app versions working?