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by notatoad 4913 days ago
This is one of the best advantages android has over iOS - you don't have all those goddamn app nag screens all over the internet.
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That's not my experience at all. I get that "Install our app" popup on Android when loading many forum/discussion-type sites.

And it's really goddamn annoying.

I usually just switch my user agent on my Android Phone to be a desktop one permanently. Though, that requires a browser that can do it from the Android Market or using a ROM with it like Cyanogen (or modding the AOSP browser and recompiling it with the feature). Many cases, you can just pull the browser from Cyanogen and stick it in /system/app if rooted (though I think the feature was only added with ICS).

I can't stand that popup either though and have a severe dislike for tapatalk. From my experience with administering a forum, they charge quite a bit for their software and then charge quite a bit more on top for small bug fixes they won't fix otherwise :(

One example is tapatalk users not being aware you're part of the forum staff when you're attempting to calm down some users and they go off on you. Though that works two ways I suppose, since they can't see you're part of the staff and go off on you as well and gives you an excuse to give them a couple day vacation :)

ah, i use firefox as my browser on android, which may also be mitigating some of this. Anybody who uses an alternate browser on iOS want to let us know what your experience is with the nag screens?
Chrome on iOS I still get the nag screens. Sadly.
Sadly, yes.
What? I get it all the time.