Could you please fuckıng not, Urban Dictionary? : assholedesign

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 190 points 7 months ago

Why the fuck would anybody install an APP to use a website?

(Puts on clown face) "Sure, I'll install this program on my pocket computer from the Urban Dictionary to save the time it would take me to open a web browser and type in the URL of it, all it costs is me giving direct access to my stored personal data and real-time activities"

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 7 months ago

The state of people blindly using apps for everything is atrocious.

“But it saves me a 1USD on my fast food burger!”

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago

Fast food charges you around double if you don't use the app. I think it's mostly about tiered pricing. They want the money from those willing to pay $15 for a burger AND they still want the money from people who won't pay more than $10. This way they get both.

[-] kadotux@lemmings.world 17 points 7 months ago

Fast food charges you around double if you don't use the app.

In the US, I guess? Not where I come from

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 4 points 7 months ago

In Italy it's also like this

You literally pay double the price if you order without using the coupons found in the app for McDonald's, Burger King and KFC

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 months ago

Makes sense. I don’t eat fast food, so I didn’t know. But no way am I installing apps for… basically any commercial thing.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Same here, but I do eat fast food on occasion. Their small discounts are not worth enough to compromise my phone's integrity and my privacy.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 7 months ago

I just looked at their app permissions, and woof. It’s almost as bad as Threads.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Wendy's order through app showing around a 45% discount.

It's not a small discount. Of course just using the app isn't the only hoop. You also have to order correctly to maximize the discount.

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[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

McDonald's charges a lot more without the app tho

fun fact: McDonald's app has tighter "security" than my bank app and won't even work on rooted devices

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

I can't believe that there's a whole generation of people who voluntarily installed a McDonald's app. I guess marketing works...

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

"but i can save a dollar by letting mcdonalds root itself deep inside my large intestine!"

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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 9 points 7 months ago

McDonald's app is the fastest way to check if you installed magisk+shamiko correctly

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

Seriously. Apps are stupid. They exist solely to steal your data, and they do that by asking for insane permissions.

And the overwhelming majority of this could be avoided if consumers didnt just straight up braindead refuse to use the actual website because "hurr hurrr I do nothing wrong why I have to hide anything I WANT MAH CONVENIENCE! REAL OR PERCEIVED!"

[-] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 12 points 7 months ago

No, only stupid apps are stupid.

Webpages are webpages. Apps are apps. Just don't use webpages that are shitty apps, don't use apps that are shitty webpages, never let a webpage display an ad, never accept a closed-source app and you'll be fine.

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[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 18 points 7 months ago

Here's a real reason: It's generally more optimized and smooth than the web version. And before you say that's because the websites purposely nerf themselves, one of the best examples to support my statement is Mastodon, which is slow and laggy on the website but fast and smooth in the app.

[-] mystik@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

Here's the REAL reason: Apps grant Developers/Content owners more control/metrics/data about the user to feed their advertisers, which translates to more revenue. It's way easier to hoover up data about the user outside of the browser sandbox, and in apps.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago

But this urban dictionary app looks like some webapp. Also this slight smoothness costs your personally identifiable data for such apps

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

How often do I need to find a reference in Urban Dictionary?

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[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 13 points 7 months ago

eh, if the app is actually native and i use it a lot I'd rather have it installed...
Don't see the point of WebView/web apps packaged as mobile ones tho....

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And that's why your phone's probably fucked up. Just install whatever, for the alleged convenience. But you already have a web browser, and you could simply make a bookmark to the website you visit frequently.

I get 3 days of battery life between charges on my phone without all that kind of bullshit on there. Running GrapheneOS on a supported Pixel with sandboxed Google Play services and zero social media apps that are not open source.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Btw, I use Arch

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Actually I use CentOS, Raspbian, Windows 10, Android, and MacOS on my various computers.

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[-] sunstoned@lemmus.org 12 points 7 months ago

Especially with Firefox and derivatives allowing you to run the webpage in an app-like way! I do this for everything from the public transit website in my city to financial sites.

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Reading this on Voyager app… errr well hummm

[-] lengau@midwest.social 10 points 7 months ago

Lemmy (and Mastodon) apps do IMO provide added value over the websites, but AFAICT the Urban Dictionary app would be better off as a web shortcut on one's home screen

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Well it looks like the app adds motion and fitness abilities… /s

[-] lengau@midwest.social 5 points 7 months ago

I stand corrected! Brb, downloading the app and giving it full access to my devices.

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That’s more like it. We’re glad to have you as ~~product~~ customer.

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 145 points 7 months ago

Why the fuck did your dumb ass install a fucking app for a website you can easily navigate and access?

[-] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

Is that actually their app? It looks like a poorly designed PWA.

[-] bbuez@lemmy.world 37 points 7 months ago

Every time you see "try it in our app!"

a poor developers soul was sacrificed to make a PWA.

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[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Program with attitude?

[-] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 months ago

in case you aren't joking: Progressive Web App. Something apple doesn't like much now

[-] AProfessional@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Websites can never request this data.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 68 points 7 months ago

How else are they supposed to provide ads that are relevant to the 2.3Km/h you are walking on day 17 of walking?

Critical data they are missing there for the advertising partners.

:P

[-] Ginger666@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 26 points 7 months ago

It needs your fitness data so it knows which of the many thousands of slang sayings insulting your weight it can use.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Lol, how about eat shit and die instead?

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[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

RIP

[-] schmidtster@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Typing requires the accelerometer for some functions (like undo on Apple at least).

[-] Still@programming.dev 60 points 7 months ago

but that would be your keyboards permission not the app

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[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 31 points 7 months ago

I know I'm speaking for an older and non-Apple hill here, but why the fuck is undo mapped to a gesture?

Speaking anecdotally now, I can't remember the last time I used the undo feature on a mobile device that wasn't in an image manipulation app, and there's usually an onscreen button for that.

[-] schmidtster@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Shake your phone and undo everything you just typed? Faster than selecting and deleting or backspacing.

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[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

~~accelerometer does not require a permission to use, typing is provided by a 3rd party keyboard app.~~
nvm this is ios

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[-] m3t00@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

stop staring at your phone

[-] yokonzo@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

He says, looking at a screen

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