Who uses web apps instead of native apps?

What apps would it be?

Me. Now with voyager, formally wefwef

Voyager is seriously the best example of a PWA I’ve ever seen.

This is my first experience with a PWA and it is blowing my mind haha

Please share a link?

Came here to say the same. It’s honesty the best mobile app I’ve tried so far.

I tried it but unfortunately swipe to go back gesture doesn’t work. It’s good but not good enough for me yet :/

It does work as well as it can, but it’s sometimes a bit flakey. Sadly that’s Apple’s problem to fix.

I’ll add a complaint. The upvote is too close to the comment button in compact mode.

The status bar has white text in light mode even though it should be black. That’s an Apple PWA bug. There’s already an issue created for it.

Voyager is definitely the best example of a PWA I’ve seen. It’s better than most native apps.

The only web app I use, well maybe a bit of HLTB, but only because it doesn’t have an app last time I checked.

You can avoid ads if you use YouTube with the Vinegar extension.

I use that, too. Also features Picture in Picture, background playback, and the default video player.

I was completely unaware of Vinegar, so thank you very much for the info!

Do you by any chance know if this will be affected by the YouTube Adblock ban?

because it’s not an ad block per se but forces HTML?

Do extensions run if I save the pages as webapps? I haven’t gotten 1password to appear in kbin so I’ve assumed they don’t work

what browser are you using? at least it works in firefox popups

Safari (iOS and Mac), and to clarify, I’m talking about web apps saved to my home screen / dock
I should give firefox a try again soon

It’s been a long time since I used YouTube in Safari because the quality just couldn’t compare to the app. Is it better nowadays?

Honestly I’ll do anything if it anything that helps me avoid ads.

On Mac? All the time. Why the fuck would I install an app for a website?

Somewhat related: I made an iOS Shortcut that lets you customize the icons for web apps. YouTube is definitely in desperate need for that. Just run in on the website before adding it to the home screen.

Download Shortcut

Oh I use plenty… dict.cc; TikTok; Astroprint; Octoprint and Printables; Xing; LinkedIn; eBay; Etsy; AliExpress; Idealo; Chefkoch; pkmn.help (very beautiful web app btw…); and so on. I got rid of any App I don’t trust and/or where the web app gets the job done.

Have you listed the web app for AliExpress? I can’t make the website name from the web app name.

You mean what URL I am using?

https://m.de.aliexpress.com

That one works for me (it’s the German site). It’s not pretty at all, but at least it avoids installing the app.

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