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I'm not going to install your flipping app!

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LESchwartz:
It seems like every time I look at a web site on my phone anymore, they nag at me to install their flipping proprietary app.  In some cases (here's looking at you Xfinity), they have migrated essential functionality from their web site to their app -- as if they're trying to force me to use the app.

I AM NOT GOING TO INSTALL A PILE OF FLIPPING APPS ON MY PHONE!!!!!!!

Not going to happen.  I'm not going to keep spending money on upgrading phones every year so companies can fill them with proprietary apps -- especially when they need to support the browser based app in order for PC users.  I guess these companies will be losing a customer to a company that doesn't want to fill up my phone with crap!

Larry

PAX:
Me either, PAX

Onepoint:
If it isn't that, its the chat thing popping up incessantly on websites, if I wanted to chat, I would have said yes the 1st time, are you trying to drive me away?

Danjal:
What do you mean you don't want to install corporate spyware on your phone?

JimmyJamesKY:
Yep.  The agency bought me an external hard drive to back up my computer.  It's Chinese and wants you to register it with them, and install an app so you can transfer your data to the external drive.  Uh, no...  I just backed up my files on a memory stick.  I complained to the agency, and they said you don't HAVE to register the device, just plug it in like the memory stick and transfer files.

The external drive is still in the box.  I can see the Chinese drive "backing up" your files on a computer in the PRC for later reference.

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