• boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
    4·
    5 months ago

    Just yesterday I noticed how insane proprietary apps on Android became.

    • nearly all of these work 90% as webapps through the browser
    • the Webapps have some arbitrary limits though, like being partly PC-style only, or having “install the app” buttons everywhere, not allowing to view Videos, etc.
    • they have like 10 buttons and settings, dont do client side encryption and generally just do stuff the Webview can do
    • they are f**ing 400MB+ big???

    Examples:

    • Sennheiser Soundcontrol
    • TikTok
    • Instagram
    • X
    • …

    All proprietary bloated garbage. Updates take literally minutes on them. It is insane, as they should be like 20MB max, as everything is just Webview.

    These are as big as Electron apps.

    Firefox is ≈ 300MB big. AN ENTIRE BROWSER

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
        0·
        5 months ago

        Most likely use of insanely bloated libraries.

        My nearly-bank (until I found out they dont work without Google and their cards are not unlockable for a human being) GLS has an old app, based on some generic banking app banks used in the past “GLS mBank” which is ⅒ of the size of the new, bloated “GLS Banking”.

        And they rely on big brother Volksbank, and they depend on another provider “Atruvia” for “security magic sauce” whose proprietary 2FA garbage app “Securego Plus” blocks me when using a VPN, of course without a message.

        I hate banks so much.

        • Noobnarski@lemmy.world
          3·
          3 months ago

          As far as I understand it, Atruvia is actually owned by the umbrella organisation of all cooperatively owned banks in Germany.

          So if I have the choice I would rather give my money to a bank that I and everyone else who has a bank account partially owns than to some corporation.

          I dont have the GLS or Volksbank App though.