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Super Apps Are Terrible for People—and Great for Companies (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apps that offer to "do it all" will subject users to even more exploitation and surveillance, while large tech companies profit.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends. Web browser? Absolutely not. Small directory listing utility (ls)? Of course.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I want my web browser to do exactly one thing. Reasonably parse HTML, JS and CSS of the websites I visit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about block intrusive ads?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm. Not really tbh. As long as it doesn’t inject ads on to the web page (like Edge did to Download Chrome page) I’m fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How about reasonably allow for multitasking?