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This is extremely true for modern social media sites. Normal news sites used to push their apps too, but I guess this fad has passed.
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Social media? Bitch, this is the average restaurant experience now! OH We HaVe OuR meNu On OuR aPp
Yeah and you have no goddamn signal here GIVE ME A FUCKEN MENU
Just curious… When did regular comics become memes?
Around the time meme came to mean any joke in an image file format
Gary Larson was my favorite memer. Ever seen The Far Side memes?
See? Doesn’t sound right at all.
Oh come on, who doesn’t remember reading the meme strips in the Sunday morning paper?
When I got older I started enjoying meme books like Spider-Man, too.
It doesn’t, and it’s annoying that pretty much any image displayed online is called a “meme” nowadays.
Now that I think about it, maybe they always have been, sort of? The earliest memes I remember are the rage comics
Though, I feel like “meme” = funny relatable thing nowadays.
Always has been by both the official definition of the word and the more modern internet use of it
That’s not really true though.
I’m so sick and tired of every single website and service trying to push an app on me. No, I don’t want to download your stupid shitty app, I’ve got dozens and I don’t want another one that I don’t use that interrupts me to push stupid notifications. Now get off my lawn!
It’s so easy nowadays to slap some bootstrap and Angular together to build a web frontend. It will work on every device if you don’t do crazy cutting-edge shit. I cannot comprehend why companies dig native apps so much.
D A T A H A R V E S T I N G
With a native app, the only thing you really need to send back and forth is some JSON data and let the app do the formatting for you. It’s a much better arrangement when your target demographic includes those with bad internet.
How is that any different from a web site? There are multiple caches between the browser and the server. The initial load (assuming a prior visit and no updates since) may be smaller than 1kB.
Reddit in a nutshell lmao
Yeah, it sucks because you can do really cool stuff with web apps these days but no, instead I need 140 native apps for basically every mobile service because their mobile websites are abhorrently designed and basically only exist to point you towards the app.
Try Sink It for Reddit, it’s a Safari extension that removes those nuisances
Do you really want to use the website, if you really need an extension because of that bullshit?
We are using the better version right now to discuss ways to [not] shoehorn the worse version back into our lives, lol.
i wish apple could regulate this tighter to demolish the hundreds of shitty companies and practices that evolved post-iphone. notification ads, this garbage, any sort of app tracking, shitty subscriptions, shitty IAPs, etc etc etc
Regulate this tighter? Apple profits from this, if anything they’d prefer if websites died altogether. Apple wants you using an app downloaded from the App Store, using iOS APIs and their own guidelines, with iOS centric design, rather than the website where the webmaster can freely control your experience and monetize you using methods not profitable for Apple.
