I miss when UI was designed to streamline the user experience. Nowadays it makes it so hostile that you want their app in order to be able to interact with the service.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 30 points 3 days ago

And they do this because apps are the wild west of stealing user info when compared to internet

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But the app UX is even worse. It just gives you access to more functionality.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 35 points 3 days ago

It gives them more access, makes them better able to invade your privacy and snoop around in your phone.

Plus, they want their icon on your phone's home screen so you'll remember them again next time.

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

I want a new browser than completely "reskins" the most important websites. There is Reader View on firefox which I wish would be a bit more expanded and flexible. And maybe something like web archive but it only P2P shares the simplified reader view of articles and pages. For that simpler AI models could be very useful.

If there was just one country on earth that would say no to intellectual property laws. You could put a central repository server there and mirror most of the internet and make it accessible again. I'd gladly pay a few bucks a month for that. Maybe combine it with a VPN.