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Teen Mental Health App Sent Kids' Data Straight to TikTok(gizmodo.com)

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RobotToaster@mander.xyz
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We are calling websites “apps” now?

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umbrella@lemmy.ml
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everything is an app now.

thanks, steve jerbs.

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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Why not? Many websites are more complex than many desktop or mobile applications, so if a website does more than just render a blog or something, I think “app” qualified. Tiktok is certainly a web application, or webapp.

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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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They kinda are

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Sturgist@lemmy.ca
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Only in the sense that most apps are just a slightly modified web site where they’re able to track way more of how you’re interacting with it and also scrape all the data on your phone…

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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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No, I was talking in the sense that most websites are just JavaScript apps, rather than served HTML as Tim intended.

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