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Good it was a dumb idea.
Happy cake day and thanks for all your contributions here.
The whats ?
So how the OS already catches links to e.g. YoyuTube and offers to open it directly in the app, it could also do that for apps that weren’t installed and it’d just download and run them automatically. One of the examples was Vimeo, instead of loading the website it’d download a cut down variant of the normal app and load the video in that instead.
The idea was to push people towards using apps instead, but now Google control the web they can just make that their app store instead, so native apps aren’t as relevant anymore.
Ok, ty !
Good. Always seemed like a potential security risk.
Not surprising, most of them were just web wrappers, anyway. I’ve not used them that often, but they feel like they’re basically just bloatier PWAs.
… I literally used this for the first time today. Sorry everyone!
Ah, so that’s how they finally got the usage metric
I think you’re probably the first person in years to do that.
