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Or you just get login/signup screen. Horrible UX.

And if you’re on mobile, they take up like 40% of your screen to insist you use the app.

Websites and web based services trying to force me to download an app, which is basically just a container for displaying the same web content, are honestly in the top five worst things about the modern web. And it’s competition involves Nazis invading social networks, erosion of privacy, etc.

If you're lucky, you can get around that by requesting the desktop site.

Would love an add-on/extension for mobile browsers that stops sites from injecting links to the app store.

uBlock Origin for Firefox Mobile might be doing that. I cannot recall seeing any of these in recent times, but I'm not sure if that's just because the websites I visit don't have any.

You probably haven't used the app in the last 6 months. The mobile website was completely redone and doesn't force you to use the app anymore. See: https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/a-one-year-pwa-ret...

Wow, you Pinterest employees are all over this submission.

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