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Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by tsukikage on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:11AM (#37735717)
The entire purpose of getting you to install a mobile phone app is to push marketing notifications at you in a way that forces you to interact with them, if only to individually dismiss them. Whatever it is /you/ want to do with the app is incidental to this, and only of any concern to the extent that it helps convince you to install the app.

Where it's possible to do the thing you want to do with a web browser (also with minimal permissions, natch), never install the app.

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Re:Teens inundated with phone prompts day and night, researc... by technothrasher on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:02AM (#37736586)
> The entire purpose of getting you to install a mobile phone app is to push marketing notifications at you

Come on, now. You're being unfair. It is also serves the purpose of being better able to collect data on you for sale to other entities which want to push marketing notifications at you.

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