Bonus: the app is just an Electron wrapper to their website.
Despite your platform having a common webview.
“It’S bEtTeR iN ThE aPp”
My doctor’s office has done this to me when I’ve called in to get help with a prescription issue I was having. Literally just gave me instructions for how to message my doctor through the app. 🫠 Mfer I’m calling because I don’t want to use it! It sucks ass too because it always takes like a week to get a one sentence reply that only addresses half of what I asked.
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Amazon
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Splitwise
Idk Amazon web works fine, I usually use the app but I don’t remember having issues with the web.
They for sure dislike secure browsers. Also the UI in general is horrible, of the website on Desktop too. Its blurry? The App on the other hand looks good
They for sure dislike secure browsers
What do you mean with this? I haven’t used Amazon in a while so I have no idea what shenanigans they’ve gotten up to
Captchas everywhere, you get logged out always, need a phone number etc.
Really? I haven’t seen that. No Captchas ever I think.
The phone number could be for the 2FA but no idea, I don’t think I have seen it, for 2FA I have the usual authenticator, that said they have my phone for sure at least for shipping but maybe I did get asked for it and I don’t remember, they have it for shipping anyway so…
But logged out… no issues there if anything it works like Facebook where not sure what they have but the session last forever…
Of course I am using my Amazon from Spain there might be differences, like just due the laws alone I expect differences on the American one.
Delete all cookies but exceptions in the firefox privacy settings
Set security mode to strict
Use noscript and you know what they do, remove all the allowed ones and all scripts from default, disable “LAN” and “others” from “trusted” and opt-in manually
Privacy is manual work. Noscript is great, but for sure takes getting used to.
That’s how you know it’s working!
Thankfully there aren’t as many great mobile webpages left anymore that I would really care about if they made me use their app. Pre-Edit: I think thankfully is the wrong word.
Still, it’s storage and heckin’ executables on your device. Everyone should get an option to use a website, even if just a poorly laid-out one, unless the vast majority of users only interact in a way that only works with local executables (like video calls). You should not need an app to check an IKEA order status on your phone (yes, they do that, see my other comment).
And I’m aware that video calls on some platforms can - and do - work in browsers but I won’t blame anyone who rejects their boss’s proposal to create a video call app in HTML/CSS/JS.
Agreed. My comment was more meant as an affront towards what mobile webpages are becoming in general. I only ever browse on my phone if there really is no other option at all.
Years of using the Links browser in my youth might have shaped my views though.
For me the hierarchy goes something like this: Floss native app (dt & mobile) > floss electron app (dt & mobile) > website > non-floss app
What does the L stand for?
Free
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Open
Source
SoftwareIs it Legal?
Libre
For the uninitiated, free/libre is “free” as in “free speech”. As opposed to free/gratis, which is “free” as in “free beer”.
Ad the app is just an ugly wrapper around Chrome custom tab.
I’m having a decent experience with progressive web apps. Even posting now with a PWA for Lemmy. It’s given me a bit more control over the bloat and background processes that might be there unwitting to me. Or requiring me to investigate . I don’t enable background notifications or anything like that however. I also direct my DNS traffic thru PiHole but that’s another conversation.
All the more reason to download a script blocker.
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You don’t have to block all scripts and the few sites which are unusable without them aren’t worth visiting.
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