[_ahxg]

> the relentless nagging by some sites to install the mobile apps needs to die.

It seems all about the hope that you can keep the user engaged long terms. I don't blame them, competition for user attention is brutal in the age of the SEO content farms, oligopoly of social networks and the "Tyranny of the Marginal User" as posted here a few days ago.

But probably way less effective now that most users seem overwhelmed by so many push notifications and instinctively learned to mass ignore or dismiss them (myself included, just randomly noticed that background habit a while ago). And then we end-up with piles of installed unused apps just like lost websites in the browser history.

[albert_e]

And just to add -- even desktop websites these days nag people to install desktop apps instead of using the browser (Zoom, Slack)