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Do y'all know your phone has a browser?
It does. But I still use my mail app instead of going to gmail.com, I use my Spotify app instead of going to Spotify.com, I use the YouTube app, etc.
Sometimes a specialized app is just better. For me that's definitely the case w sync.
Right there with you. I use —reddit— lemmy on my phone on the go. I want a button in a consistent place that opens it quickly.
I open my browser, oops I was looking at another tab I’ll just go through my tabs to find the specific website I’m looking for this time. At that point the browser is just its own app picker inside of another app picker. I have even added links to my Home Screen as well, but I’ve run into many issues with opening loads of dupes and clogging up my tabs. Maybe browser works in a perfect world (or even just a world where I save links in pocket or something instead of tabs idk) but it kind of just seems like an app browser with extra steps. Browser elitists do themselves no favors acting high and mighty about literally just not having an app? About saving 70MB like it’s 1999? Idk it’s a dumb argument. Everybody’s solution works for them.
I'm proving their point that sometimes a service is worth paying for (either through cash or by seeing ads)? In that case, yeah I guess I am. Different people have different preferences. Go figure.
I bet half the people pretending Sync to be some malicious spyware have set Chrome as their default browser
I wish it was that low.
The best way to lemmy is mlmym.org on LibreWolf. Works great on Linux phone and has the same old.reddit interface I've used for over a decade.
Why waste space on single-purpose apps when you have a browser. Also, websites can't track you or waste resources when you aren't actively using them like apps can.
Lacks customization.