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mobile apps have reeled in their shittiness in recent years.

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slightly.
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@ -86,11 +86,6 @@ offer driving directions and
understand the concept of a road.
[Osmand+ doing its thing, as demonstrated at the start of "what apple hath wrought"]
### notifications
the vast majority of apps do not need to give notifications. Honestly the vast majority of mobile apps don't need to exist at all, but I can only argue that case-by-case.
[//TODO: examples. obviously I get rid of apps that pull this shit, stat.]
### automation
question: how do you automate your phone? if you try and do some research online, both sides of the walled gardens have a *plethora* of stupid ways to decrease your productivity of automating *other* stuff *from* your phone. But since your phone is the nexus of your security and identity, you aren't allowed to let anything go poking around in it.
@ -139,11 +134,11 @@ But that would require apps to work on the old paradigm - where they read and wr
It's no secret that mobile web browsers are just skins on chrome. This is who google dictates your experience to maximize your diet of ads.
Firefox on the desktop is the last web browser that was a Great Thing.
[//TODO: the article where they got caught in a pr]
Up until recently, they were trying to preserve at least some of that.
[note] Given recent events though, RIP firefox. librewolf is my new best friend.
[//TODO: replicate]
Firefox on mobile is absolutely not making any such attempt. It does what all the other mobile apps are doing: once a day it abuses its notification privileges to advertise to you; "hey come back and run the app again".
It frequently updates its UI (to feed its progress addiction). Worst of all, they *had* and then **removed** plugin support. If an adblocker is necessary to browse the web, it's even more necessary to browse the web on mobile. We should all think less of the mozilla foundation for the 2020 change.
Firefox on the desktop is the last web browser that was a Great Thing. Up until recently, they were trying to preserve at least some of that.
Given recent events though, RIP firefox. librewolf is my new best friend.
Firefox on mobile is absolutely not making any such attempt.
It frequently updates its UI (to feed its progress addiction), thus giving them another reason to jump in your way and onboard people.
Unforgivably, however: they *had* and then **removed** plugin support. If an adblocker is necessary to browse the web, it's even more necessary to browse the web on mobile. We should all think less of the mozilla foundation for the 2020 change.
[//TODO: there was drama on the internet about the change they made, show some of that]
(fortunately they were sufficiently pressured to walk back their mistake.)
[I think in 2023 they said "ff mobile is getting plugin support". it might be google's antisolution version?]