Sparky
It's because the apps work as black boxes stopping the end user from blocking their telemetry, advertising and tracking.
What I hate more is how companies deliberately add blocks to their websites if you're on mobile so as to force the user to download the app.
Two of the most egregious samples I've seen so far is Microsoft teams that shows a banner saying "this browser is not supported", but switching your user agent or enabling desktop mode from within your phone's browser makes it work perfectly fine.
Another is Facebook (yuck) which displays a fake loading bar that never finishes unless you trick it the same way as with teams. Their mobile site prevents you from posting anything, commenting, viewing random posts, uploading files, or seeing notifications. If you don't have the app installed, you're essentially locked out of messenger because it is reluctant at opening any shared files or posts as that has to be opened through the facebook app (obviously). What's worse is I'm prompted to log in to Facebook every time I open any link Facebook or not from within messenger.
I'd love to fully uninstall meta's apps but I have family members that only use their apps (fuck the networking effect)
That makes sooo much sense. Wow
Bro stop targeting me. This hits wayyy to close to home
That's 3pm in scandinavia
I remember my first job at McDonald's, and this was literally their onboarding. Didn't watch any videos or anything. They just asked:"you know how to make a burger right?" to someone who never eats at any fastfood place. That was a rough week
Be careful because Sam altman might steal it for his worldcoin bs
You monster.
I've got a better idea... What if all mathematical calculations were done by chatgpt
I don't want to be a downer, but I'm afraid people will see the extra emissions headroom and speed up production instead of letting the carbon capture reverse anything.
I'm sure they thought of this (and this one is in Iceland so they have a bunch of geothermal energy), but wouldn't the power consumption and the emissions that come with producing the power negate some of the practical capacity of these carbon vacuums?
Ye the explanation I presented is something I say to simple minded people as a way for me to tell them that the act of wanting privacy isn't criminal, and that it is wayyy creepier when some stranger is trying to actively breach said privacy.
I want to belive that this entire breach of privacy thing will form a sort of bubble that'll burst and people will wake up and realize that "hey this is kinda creepy", but this does seem to trend towards a dystopian cyberpunk future
I'd honestly love a wall of shame for websites and "tech products" that showcases their hostility to users trying to circumvent their tracking