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I love the idea of PWAs as an option for people, but I would 100% rather use a web page than an app. I have kick ass extensions filtering ads, giving me adjust
by jauntywundrkind 3y ago
I love the idea of PWAs as an option for people, but I would 100% rather use a web page than an app.
I have kick ass extensions filtering ads, giving me adjustable/customizable dark mode, I have a great form auto-saver, I have audio scrobblers, I have pinboard and are.na extensions.
I have a url bar! I have tabs! I have back & forward buttons where I expect. I am afforded so much by the browser chrome. I don't want my user experience to be at the behest of some company building an app; I want the freedom and power to go further. And it feels like PWAs are a step back, to a form of computing that doesn't respect user agency.
And alas, a number of permissions are being created that only work for PWAs! This is the biggest threat I see to the web I want: PWAs forcibly removing me from the situated environment I regularly use/enjoy, the browser.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoYes, I feel like the idea of a website/web-app you can install made sense at one point, but the reality is that it's not really much of an advantage on a browser, and if you're still running a browser too, you may as well just use it as a part of your existing browser. Firefox pulling the plug on their PWA efforts was pretty frustrating.