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Yep. As much as people lament the sorry state of some mobile web browsing, I find that with modern smartphones with up to date specs and a nice big screen, I'd
by soylentcola 11y ago
Yep. As much as people lament the sorry state of some mobile web browsing, I find that with modern smartphones with up to date specs and a nice big screen, I'd almost always prefer to use the bookmarked website over a dedicated mobile app for each site.
Aside from the fact that many are just wrappers for their mobile site (and often do a worse job at rendering the site than the mobile Chrome or Firefox I already have installed), you get stuff like the aforementioned Facebook app which love to run more background processes and pester you to install additional apps for messaging or other features that work perfectly well in the browser.
When I got my most recent phone I didn't install the Facebook app and instead just use either the bookmarked mobile site or one of several third party apps that "sandbox" your website login so Facebook can't pull other info from your device. My battery lasts longer and I can continue to open Facebook when I want to look at Facebook and ignore it when I'm doing other things.
Additionally, I would need to grant superuser permissions to run a system-wide adblocker but in a browser, I can just install Adblock Plus/Edge/etc. and avoid the ads on mobile where they suck up limited data and generally get in the way on the smaller screen.
- click170 11y agoThere are other reasons why you shouldn't install apps from Facebook and LinkedIn[0], but one thing I do wish is that there was an easier way to tell Chrome to default to requesting Desktop sites[1]. The state of most mobile websites is just abysmal and I find myself tapping the Request Desktop Site option multiple times a day. [0] http://lifehacker.com/5921095/facebook-just-changed-your-email-without-permission-heres-how-to-get-it-back http://lifehacker.com/5921095/facebook-just-changed-your-ema... [1] http://www.guidingtech.com/16169/desktop-mode-websites-chrome-android-permanently/ http://www.guidingtech.com/16169/desktop-mode-websites-chrom...