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The app download nags on mobile web are so unbearable I stopped using Twitter entirely



I made a webapp home icon from my Firefox and picked out the app-bait popover with uBlock.

Basically just about every app (YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, ...) is better this way. I.e., no ads, erase-able elements, less spyware, defaults to no notification and sometimes even gets better functionality. For instance, it (browsers) gets rid of "hearts" in Duolingo for whatever damn reason, so you can practice however much you'd like in a day.

The downsides I've found is that you seemingly can't Chrome-cast from it, and it often creates new tabs instead of reusing existing ones or making it's own app-instance, so you gotta close all tabs every so often.


Same with reddit on a mobile browser... it actually shuts you out, and says (after a couple of clicks) that they have locked you out "for your protection" as the content is "unverified", and that you need to use their app..




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