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Then you’re not using a phone. You’re using a computer which happens to have phone capabilities. Surely you can see how this isn’t particularly useful for most people?
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No, I can't. What's the problem?

On modern phones, 99% of interactivity for 99% or users comes via the App Store. Many websites will actively ducktype and send phones to an App Store, which just becomes a broken link on your laptop-with-LTE. Hell, nowadays, some sites will cripple interactions via phone browsers to encourage app use.

If you’re downloading 200 mb pages every time because you’re loading desktop pages on your phone, it’ll be pretty slow and inefficient.


So what are you suggesting? Giving up? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229490

Also PWAs can use local storage.


You asked me to explain why it’s not useful to most people and I did. I don’t particularly care what people do with this information, I just find it annoying to see incomplete pictures.



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