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Comment by Ntrails | Hacker News Reader

I dislike apps and avoid installing them in general terms. They're bloated and frankly I have better things to store on my phone (mostly music, but also photos, conversation histories etc). I do not need an "app" for submitting a form. Looking at a website. etc etc

My favourite thing about using a website? It can't send me attention grabbing notifications. It can't harass me for perms.

I'm 100% an outlier. My friends don't blink twice to install all manor of loyalty, news, social media, lifestyle, games etc etc and rarely clean up. It's all just choices and preferences - the world does not suit me.

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The world seems to be reversed in my mind. On my phone everything wants to be an app, and everything on my computer wants to be a webapp. I want the opposite. Native apps on the computer and the phone can just be webapps, because I don't really care, nor do I need to repeatably use the same app on my phone.

On my computer I have a few programs installed, which I just constantly. On the phone I need each app only a few times a month, if that, yet they all insist on being actual apps.

Same. I have only a few apps installed that my phone didn't come with. No games. No social media apps. Even email I access via Safari. If I absolutely must use an app for something, I typically install it, do what I need, and then delete it.

If you're on Android, you may enjoy the new "Archive" functionality, which uninstalls the app but retains its local data directory so when you tap the icon it re-downloads the apk on top of its existing data directory, so no more first-user experience https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/15523443?hl=en

I believe it's primary use case is storage efficiency but it works perfectly fine in your use case of preventing the code from running while you're not actively using it

> My favourite thing about using a website? It can't send me attention grabbing notifications. It can't harass me for perms.

But it works the same as for apps. You get prompted once on iOS at least. You either opt in for notifications or you don’t. There’s no difference.

I'm right there with you. There are probably dozens of us!

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