Comment by uoaei
2 years ago
Protip: the harder a company pushes you to download their app, the more they have to gain from it. 99.999% of the time it's because they want access to as much of your data as they can sneak out of your device, usually for selling it.
One notable corollary is, the shittier the mobile browser webapp implementation is, the more they want to push people onto their app. See: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.
Exactly this. Never install a company's app unless you absolutely need to. Use websites instead whenever possible. If you do need to install an app, uninstall it as soon as possible even if you know you'll need it again at some point.
> the shittier the mobile browser webapp implementation is, the more they want to push people onto their app. See: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit
Yelp is the gold standard in this regard, blithely pretending that they can't show you any photos (or is it more than a few photos? I avoid yelp on mobile so much I can't recall). It's probably the right move for them, because the photos are 99% of the reason I ever want to use Yelp. Reviews can be outright lies or simply written by people ~~with no taste~~ whose tastes are not simpatico with mine, but photos don't lie*.
* well, nowadays I guess they can