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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by jondubois on Monday August 27, 2018 @03:21PM (#17853664)
Yes, I've been prompted by Reddit to download the app many, many times (to the point that it's basically brainwashing), yet I've closed it every single time. It's annoying actually.

The web app is great, I don't know why they want me to fill up my phone's hard drive with another useless app.

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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by vxxzy on Monday August 27, 2018 @04:58PM (#17854491)
You can collect more data with an app.
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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by scarface74 on Monday August 27, 2018 @10:13PM (#17856151)
What useful data can you collect with the app that you can’t from visiting a website?
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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by masonic on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @03:48AM (#17857197)
The Reddit app happily sucks all kinds of content from your phone. It demands access to your location, storage, and full network access, unsupervised.
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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by scarface74 on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:28AM (#17857550)
It won’t work on Android if you deny permission for location and storage? There is an explicit per app setting on iOS that can stop most apps from running in the background.

This is partially why Android users have to be as careful about downloading apps as Windows users.

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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by scarface74 on Monday August 27, 2018 @10:15PM (#17856158)
The Reddit app for iOS is 55.8MB. Not exactly a bloated app.
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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by masonic on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @03:52AM (#17857218)
For perspective, imagine installing such a low-utility program spanning 39 high-density 1.44MB diskettes... and considering that not bloated.

(Isn't that more than the entire original Linux distributions from the copyfest era?)

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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by scarface74 on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @12:01PM (#17869255)
That reminds me, imagine installing it on my first Mac with an 80MB hard drive. My entire SoftPC install with a disk image was only about 10MB.

And Windows 95 was only 55MB install.

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1060820-how-big-were-the-...

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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by wolco on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @12:03AM (#17856483)
55.8 mg is bloated. A news reader should be under 30 ideally 20 or less
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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by earenndil on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @11:58PM (#17914930)
(I beta-tested it) it started out at around 5mb. It slowly increased to around 20-30mb, and around that time I lost interest.
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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by jondubois on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @01:54AM (#17856812)
That's massive. My phone hard drive is pretty full so I often have to delete stuff to make room for other stuff.
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