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by Piskvorrr 2819 days ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Quora. (Because the app has extra permissions beyond what's granted to a webpage? Because the site wants you to log in, and that's also easier to do through a native app?) That said, it also has restrictions on unauthenticated reading on normal web - they seem to push hard for "everybody needs to be logged into our walled garden".