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On my iPad the "web" just works, any "m." site just adds even more whitespace than web developers seem compelled to force on viewers and raises the font size to 3x bigger than the large type books at the public library.

Web sites (say Reddit) have some banner that says it is better if you download the app, log in and all that bs, but you know it is not better for you it is better for them collecting data on you.

But really how bad it is it? I spend as little time as possible with apps on my iPad, mostly i have 6 different apps so I can occasionally do something with the "internet of things".

My take is that the web works just fine on mobile, it is PWA and push notifications which no users asked for, anyway. I mean, push notifications, does anybody really want to get more spam? The one thing I know is that everybody and his brother and his sister and all their cousins and their cousin's schoolteachers and on and on wants to send me more spam than I can handle so if Apple is saying "no spam please" isn't that fighting the good fight?



http://i.reddit.com still exists, thankfully, and is a million times better than the new one.




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