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Lol, this funny trend of having a stupid ass homepage that just links to an app store.

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It’s for the data harvesting they get from your phone.

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And despite that I can’t believe some people are still not highly skeptical of federating with meta as though there isn’t over a decade of privacy infringing business practices. Instead wanting to hear them out after they just went through deleting content from reddit because they didn’t want to provide value to Spez, but they are fine with providing content for meta users to interact with for Zuckerberg?

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Twitter had the most data harvesting with news sites embedding tweets. Can’t do that with an app and no web.

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That is likely a benefit but let’s be honest the real reason is that a web version would require a lot of additional overhead especially to staff enough engineers.

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A web wrapper for the platform would be effectively no effort, especially for a company like Facebook. The difficulties would be losing out on tracking data and dealing with annoyances like adblock

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This makes no sense honestly. Making a captive web app is easier than supporting two apps.

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