Do people still use websites?? - what you browsing?
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Pondering the fact that I really don't view websites much now at all. Apart from PH and BBC (and Google searches) pretty much anything else internet based I frequent is via an app, including YouTube and social media.
Aside from the mucky corner, what else do people look at via the WWW??
Aside from the mucky corner, what else do people look at via the WWW??
For pretty much everything that isn't found in the really popular apps like YT and FB. I guess it depends on what your interests are but I just don't want to install an app for every single website that I visit - it's really odd that people expect us to do that if it isn't for something that requires specialist treatment eg YT for videos or Barclays for banking.
I recently got a new phone and have made a concerted effort not to install apps but to use websites wherever possible - eg, I've ditched the news and weather apps I used to have.
I'm sick to the back teeth of apps, constant updates of apps, and their spurious attempts to justify why they need my location, my contacts, my microphone, etc.
I'm sick to the back teeth of apps, constant updates of apps, and their spurious attempts to justify why they need my location, my contacts, my microphone, etc.
Prak said:
I recently got a new phone and have made a concerted effort not to install apps but to use websites wherever possible - eg, I've ditched the news and weather apps I used to have.
I'm sick to the back teeth of apps, constant updates of apps, and their spurious attempts to justify why they need my location, my contacts, my microphone, etc.
My local car dealer has an app, install it and they will still fI'm sick to the back teeth of apps, constant updates of apps, and their spurious attempts to justify why they need my location, my contacts, my microphone, etc.
k everything upPrak said:
I recently got a new phone and have made a concerted effort not to install apps but to use websites wherever possible - eg, I've ditched the news and weather apps I used to have.
I'm sick to the back teeth of apps, constant updates of apps, and their spurious attempts to justify why they need my location, my contacts, my microphone, etc.
+1I'm sick to the back teeth of apps, constant updates of apps, and their spurious attempts to justify why they need my location, my contacts, my microphone, etc.
Generally I don t find apps as useful/usable as the website.
Autotrader is an outlier.
Having my phone cluttered with dozens of apps I rarely use bugs me. Restaurant apps particularly. FFS.
Edited by Lefty on Monday 15th September 07:01
Lefty said:
Prak said:
I recently got a new phone and have made a concerted effort not to install apps but to use websites wherever possible - eg, I've ditched the news and weather apps I used to have.
I'm sick to the back teeth of apps, constant updates of apps, and their spurious attempts to justify why they need my location, my contacts, my microphone, etc.
+1I'm sick to the back teeth of apps, constant updates of apps, and their spurious attempts to justify why they need my location, my contacts, my microphone, etc.
Generally I don t find apps as useful/usable as the website.
Autotrader is an outlier.
Having my phone cluttered with dozens of apps I rarely use bugs me. Restaurant apps particularly. FFS.
Edited by Lefty on Monday 15th September 07:01
king single thing I buy now has an app. I'm getting email spam now pestering me as to why I've not installed the app for my home insurance. An app for my home insurance. The company I maybe contact / use once every 5 or 10 years. And it WILL be full of notifications trying to upsell me stuff.Apps for every shop, supermarket, toolsation, screwfix, macdonalds, greggs, clothes, home insurance, evrything . Its relentless.
My apps, that I deem useful (and almost ALL muted of all notifications - "all" , because quite a few now tie in promitional notifications with essential notifications) - Gmail, Calendar, all the banks, Maps, Waze, Audible, and the standard stuff. Not one store, not one insurance/pet care app, none of that "noise".
So what do I use the "internet browser" for - all the stuff like that.
Shopping
Research
Linear cutting calcs(v specific!)
Insurance management
Banking
Accounting
Web based 3D design
Holidays
Flight bookings
Car hire
Currencey transfers (business)
But mostly, research / price comparisons . reviews.
If a site directs me to the playstore and forces me to download an app they can GTF, much to the extent I refused to book a tennis court the other day as the provider kept forcing me to pay via an app. All so they can harvest some data and try and spam me via notifications.
The most bizarre one was dining in a mexican restaurant in London. QR code on the table to download the menu, then again to pay. What happened to the tried and tested practice of a waiting person bringing you the menu then the bill at the end. Didn't streamline anything as after I paid, I then had to hang about and wait for the waitress to check my phone to ensure payment had gone through!
The most bizarre one was dining in a mexican restaurant in London. QR code on the table to download the menu, then again to pay. What happened to the tried and tested practice of a waiting person bringing you the menu then the bill at the end. Didn't streamline anything as after I paid, I then had to hang about and wait for the waitress to check my phone to ensure payment had gone through!
Edited by NaePasaran on Monday 15th September 07:29
I try to use as few apps as possible but I prefer to use websites on my Chromebook anyway. I don't like to clog up my phone.
I'm used to being able to put a fiver or a tenner to a charity box on the high street or when they hang out in front of supermarkets. But nowadays they all require you to download an app or register all your details on their website
e.g. you want to give a fiver to charity - ok we need your name, address, d.o.b, phone number, email address, home address etc.
I just end up walking away.
I'm used to being able to put a fiver or a tenner to a charity box on the high street or when they hang out in front of supermarkets. But nowadays they all require you to download an app or register all your details on their website
e.g. you want to give a fiver to charity - ok we need your name, address, d.o.b, phone number, email address, home address etc.
I just end up walking away.
How often would I want to install a random app that could potentially do all sorts to my device(s) and hoover up information while it's at it, while there's a website that more often than not offers at least the same if not more functionality without the sideffects?
Especially when I don't spend my whole life poking away at a little screen because I have much bigger nicer ones attached to a proper keyboard?
Websites are universal and sandboxed, apps most definitely aren't.
Especially when I don't spend my whole life poking away at a little screen because I have much bigger nicer ones attached to a proper keyboard?
Websites are universal and sandboxed, apps most definitely aren't.
rix said:
Sky Sports, The Athletic, and this website. Don’t use many apps as ad-block doesn’t work. Even the rare occasion I use YouTube is through the browser! Only apps I use with any regularity are banking apps.
I've been de-appifying as much as possible.
Apps are just single use web browsers anyway. It ends up being easier to use a normal, full featured web browser and adblock/privacy badger works as well.
The only other features of apps is that they suck up your personal data and display ads you can't block.
Apps are just single use web browsers anyway. It ends up being easier to use a normal, full featured web browser and adblock/privacy badger works as well.
The only other features of apps is that they suck up your personal data and display ads you can't block.
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