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Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun
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I wish sites that do have PWAs would stop funneling people towards their app.
Especially Patreon, where patronages started using their app would be 30% more expensive for their users than patronages started through their website because of the Apple (and probably Google) tax. Patreon is aware of this tax but keeps advertising their fucking stupid app! You have a Progressive Web App that's works perfectly! Stop it! Get some help!
Twitter had some great outcomes when they rolled out their PWA: https://web.dev/case-studies/twitter
yet they kept pushing their native apps, probably because they can collect more data through them. The web is way more sandboxed than regular apps.
That's less an endorsement of PWAs and more a condemnation of how garbage the native app always was.
I have never encounteted a PWA that works better than a website OR an app - this from users actual usability viewpoint. They are a cancer, that sits right in between the worst of both worlds.