I weirdly get depressed about this a lot. Like I just imagine some programmer guy, with the best intent in the world, adding in code to let websites know you’re using a phone so that you can make super good content that fits a phone perfectly and increase experience to every user.
Only for the next day some rich monopoly company being like “lol let’s use it to block access to our website, and force people onto our app”. :(
I know a couple of old head programmers in their 60s who deeply lament the world they’ve created. So… you’re not alone lmao.
Thank fuck early desktop GUIs used the resizable windows multi-tasking paradigm.
Potentially having tiny browser windows means that every website will have to be somewhat responsive just to get usage in corporate offices. I’d much rather have to spoof being a smol bean chrome window than install every shitty app.
does that work for sites like twitch? i haven’t figured out how to get past twitches “supported browser” log in detections
I used UAS on Librewolf specifically to say I’m on Firefox and Linux (which I am). I want to properly represent what I’m using and not support the Google/Microsoft monopolies, even if that means some websites throw around unsupported browser or OS errors.
remember when “apps” were called programs?
The modern push for PC ‘Apps’ are just PC ‘Secret Browser Windows’ because a good portion of apps nowadays are just webpages packaged with 30MB web engine.
Discord, spotify and even my fucking graphics card driver, is a web app in a browser
The amd software at least has an option to browse with tabs etc… not that i want to.
Threads is a good example. I’m a hog for scrolling, so obviously I wanted to check out threads… but am greeted with a QR code to download the app. Why the fuck can’t I just look at it my desktop web browser like literally every other one of these?? The obvious answer is: the actual purpose of these apps is to just sell more advertising data, and a browser version doesn’t have the same access to the panopticon.
They launched without even having a desktop website and a lot of people couldn’t paste images in the phone app, so they immediately hamstrung the people trying to upload actual fucking content, like oh wow I have a video I didn’t shoot with my phone camera, time to upload it to Google Fucking Drive and then download it on my phone slowly and THEN upload it onto threads. So fucking dumb
