nahostdeutschland@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaignerswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square245fedilinkarrow-up1922arrow-down114
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minus-squareA_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·10 hours agoYep. They want you to use apps, cause all the permissions you give the app makes it much easier for them to harvest all your data for marketing and selling purposes.
minus-squareShowroom7561@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·9 hours agoThat’s exactly it. Easy to block ads and trackers on a website, but more difficult or impossible on some apps. One of the banking apps won’t show the total balance of the account unless I’m using the app. How ridiculous.
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·56 minutes agoThey know that a lot of people would rather have it work a little better by getting an app, if they keep reminding people it’s an option. Even if “better” is just lack of nags. It’s sad. We need a digital privacy law so that an app can’t be more invasive than the website.
Yep. They want you to use apps, cause all the permissions you give the app makes it much easier for them to harvest all your data for marketing and selling purposes.
That’s exactly it. Easy to block ads and trackers on a website, but more difficult or impossible on some apps.
One of the banking apps won’t show the total balance of the account unless I’m using the app. How ridiculous.
They know that a lot of people would rather have it work a little better by getting an app, if they keep reminding people it’s an option.
Even if “better” is just lack of nags.
It’s sad. We need a digital privacy law so that an app can’t be more invasive than the website.