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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • sort of like a more accessible bookmark, separated out so as to not get buried within 800 tabs (if you’re anything like my mum). it’s not anything groundbreaking in actual use, I guess it kind of just appifies a given webpage (there is some technical nuance that I’m kind of glossing over to assure standards compliance and help them perform better offline).

    It can be kind of nice on a phone to eliminate some of the UI chrome given the limited screen real estate you have.


  • I’m sorry that happened. I’ve never seen stuff like this but this is likely because I disable as much shit as I can every time I set Firefox up on a new system. As you can see from the list of recs I linked above, it’s a bit of a chore.

    There are definitely smarter ways to go about it, like scripting the disablement of stupid shit in Firefox (or using a privacy respecting fork of the browser), but I like to do this / monitor this manually to keep track of any newly introduced anti features.


  • I don’t think PWAs are necessarily at odds with this? One use case I could imagine is setting up a website that a parent or grandparent frequently uses as an app icon on their phone’s home screen, it can help avoid a lot of browsing UX hurdles people like us often take for granted

    pixelfed offer an app and a responsive website; you can think of it as an open source and federated alternative to Instagram (I’m not sure why I use it besides welcoming people leaving meta’s services and up voting pictures of cats and dogs).

    The web experience is technically more capable than the android app, which I believe uses react native anyway. Having it as a pwa kind of neatly tucks it away from my other browsing on my phone.



  • in my (albeit limited) experience, that isn’t how it works. for example, ublock origin should still filter content as you’d expect, and I’d imagine inspect element would work on desktops too.

    this just renders a webpage without the typical UI chrome (tabs, address/omnibar). it can be handy on am android phone for webapps like pixelfed (which is the only thing I use as pwa so far).