♻️ Reblog of
Alex Russell (slightlyoff@toot.cafe)
Obvious to technologists, but opaque to normies: site keep trying SO HARD to get you to install their native app not because it's actually better, but because it's imbued (by Apple and Google) with MUCH better tracking potential.
The counter-argument is push notifications (which should be normalised this coming year as Apple is feeling regulatory heat), but I strongly suspect we'll see the same nonsense for a long while on the back of the tracking gap.