apparently Lemmy thinks this is such a stupid question it doesn’t belong on NoStupidQuestions 🤷♀️
Yeah, I was wondering why so many downvotes
Downvoting a stupid question in a no stupid questions community is just plain wrong yall.
I’m glad they do as that’s the only way I access those platforms. Same applies for twitter. Using an app means I can’t block ads.
They make it so painful though to obviously twist people’s arms into installing their data harvesting apps. Facebook on mobile is so stripped down and actually freezes half the times you try to use it.
Meta apps are some of the worst spyware. When I occasionally need to use Facebook, I use the web interface only, so I don’t need to install the apps.
You need it to share URLs. You can’t know the device it will be opened on. Also, news articles sometimes embed them, which they use to hoard information about readers.
Because only most users use the app, some still use the web for what ever reason. Gotta give your customer what they want.
Also what about those on a pc?
Also what about those on a pc?
this could be the reason why they still provides the web interface ig.
An extra way to get more data , this time from people who doesn’t download the app for whatever reasons ( like low storage for example )
I don’t download apps if the place has a website. I don’t want some garbage company on my phone unless it’s in a browser. Infact most applications are just trash and show limited functionality of the website, nothing more. Most program d are literally useless trash.
There was a time Instagram is only accessible using mobile apps.
that’s interesting… I wonder why they revert the changes.
AFAIR, Instagram started mobile only.
Then they made the service available in more platforms.
Correct, and likely because some people refuse to download the apps. I know I was one of them. I say was because I now do my best to not use their services at all, and where I do need to, I use a third-party app so I can use one app for multiple messaging services.