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Why not just use the mobile website then? An app icon is itself equivalent to having a billboard on your homescreen. What is the app providing besides notifications that necessitates its use?

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Mobile websites are often either non existent or work far worse than the app.

In the case of Uber, they actually have a very deeply developed webapp.

Thank you! You just saved me 700 MB of storage + whatever privacy violations the app was enabling.

I haven't found this to be true for any app that just shows text and images.

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