Could you please fuckıng not, Urban Dictionary?

Why the fuck would anybody install an APP to use a website?

(Puts on clown face) "Sure, I'll install this program on my pocket computer from the Urban Dictionary to save the time it would take me to open a web browser and type in the URL of it, all it costs is me giving direct access to my stored personal data and real-time activities"

The state of people blindly using apps for everything is atrocious.

“But it saves me a 1USD on my fast food burger!”
- Fast food charges you around double if you don't use the app. I think it's mostly about tiered pricing. They want the money from those willing to pay $15 for a burger AND they still want the money from people who won't pay more than $10. This way they get both.
- McDonald's charges a lot more without the app tho
  
  fun fact: McDonald's app has tighter "security" than my bank app and won't even work on rooted devices
Seriously. Apps are stupid. They exist solely to steal your data, and they do that by asking for insane permissions.

And the overwhelming majority of this could be avoided if consumers didnt just straight up braindead refuse to use the actual website because "hurr hurrr I do nothing wrong why I have to hide anything I WANT MAH CONVENIENCE! REAL OR PERCEIVED!"
- No, only stupid apps are stupid.
  
  Webpages are webpages. Apps are apps. Just don't use webpages that are shitty apps, don't use apps that are shitty webpages, never let a webpage display an ad, never accept a closed-source app and you'll be fine.
- It’s quicker to load a known json into a know UI than an entire webpage. Plus, you don’t get any features in the webpage like swiping, double tapping, or notifications (for things like DMs).
  
  I use a Lemmy app because it’s faster and just works. It hasn’t asked for any extra permissions.
Especially with Firefox and derivatives allowing you to run the webpage in an app-like way! I do this for everything from the public transit website in my city to financial sites.
Here's a real reason: It's generally more optimized and smooth than the web version. And before you say that's because the websites purposely nerf themselves, one of the best examples to support my statement is Mastodon, which is slow and laggy on the website but fast and smooth in the app.
- Here's the REAL reason: Apps grant Developers/Content owners more control/metrics/data about the user to feed their advertisers, which translates to more revenue. It's way easier to hoover up data about the user outside of the browser sandbox, and in apps.
- But this urban dictionary app looks like some webapp. Also this slight smoothness costs your personally identifiable data for such apps
- How often do I need to find a reference in Urban Dictionary?
eh, if the app is actually native and i use it a lot I'd rather have it installed...
Don't see the point of WebView/web apps packaged as mobile ones tho....
- And that's why your phone's probably fucked up. Just install whatever, for the alleged convenience. But you already have a web browser, and you could simply make a bookmark to the website you visit frequently.
  
  I get 3 days of battery life between charges on my phone without all that kind of bullshit on there. Running GrapheneOS on a supported Pixel with sandboxed Google Play services and zero social media apps that are not open source.
Reading this on Voyager app… errr well hummm
- Lemmy (and Mastodon) apps do IMO provide added value over the websites, but AFAICT the Urban Dictionary app would be better off as a web shortcut on one's home screen
I have never navigated urban dictionary. Even going from one word to the next, I have only ever googled a word + "urban dictionary"
"hey Google, define 'no shot'"
- "sorry, I didn't understand"
  
  (90% of the responses I get from that in the past two years - it used to work but now it's useless)

Why the fuck did your dumb ass install a fucking app for a website you can easily navigate and access?

Is that actually their app? It looks like a poorly designed PWA.
- Every time you see "try it in our app!"
  
  a poor developers soul was sacrificed to make a PWA.
- Program with attitude?
- Websites can never request this data.

How else are they supposed to provide ads that are relevant to the 2.3Km/h you are walking on day 17 of walking?

Critical data they are missing there for the advertising partners.

:P

Why do people have the need to install an app on your phone that has access to everything when it does the same thing the browser on your phone will do?

It needs your fitness data so it knows which of the many thousands of slang sayings insulting your weight it can use.

Lol, how about eat shit and die instead?

"hey Google, define 'no shot'"

RIP

+1 for the juxtaposition of background and message

Gotta go fast

stop staring at your phone

He says, looking at a screen

Typing requires the accelerometer for some functions (like undo on Apple at least).

but that would be your keyboards permission not the app
- Maybe it doesn’t pass through? Some apps need permission for camera and library, the camera would in theory give access to library like the keyboard to accelerometer as well, but that’s changed in recent months.
I know I'm speaking for an older and non-Apple hill here, but why the fuck is undo mapped to a gesture?

Speaking anecdotally now, I can't remember the last time I used the undo feature on a mobile device that wasn't in an image manipulation app, and there's usually an onscreen button for that.
- For me personally, I use it when I'm using speech-to-text and unable to type/use the keyboard because of whatever else is in my hands, and I'm walking somewhere.
  
  It's a very niche feature tbh, but convenient to have when I'm in the niche.
- Shake your phone and undo everything you just typed? Faster than selecting and deleting or backspacing.
- By default, it's just undo text input when you either do a special swipe or tap the back, useful in e.g. the web browser. However applications can hook into this functionality to do their own stuff when the gesture is called.
~~accelerometer does not require a permission to use, typing is provided by a 3rd party keyboard app.~~
nvm this is ios
- There are third party keyboards on iOS. The person you responded to is right that there is shake to undo, but this prompt has absolutely nothing to do with it.
It could be an error reporting feature also.