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[–] [email protected] 179 points 8 months ago (28 children)

The reason this is done is because you can see everything your browser is doing, but you can't see everything an application is doing without disassembling it.

I want very much to go back to websites. Apps are stupid.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (25 children)

the reason is children. for some reason the most recent generation of kids requires apps instead of sites. god forbid they have to remember an address.

just look at the fuckload of people who cant use lemmy without an 'app'

this is one of my peeeves

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They just haven't seen the light yet - I feel like most people from every generation are app'd up.

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