• etrotta@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Why would you want to block their telemetry?
        It is not like they’re using it to serve ads to you, and it should be better for everyone for developers to make decisions based on how users are actually using their app, no?

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          It’s simple. Nothing that happens on my device is their data.

          Any telemetry that isn’t explicitly opt in with zero consequence for not doing so should be the kind of illegal that gets every asset your company owns seized immediately for non-compliance. All user data collection is spyware.

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        1 year ago

        It works better for me as an app. I don’t like my browsers to be cluttered like that. But if it fits your usecase

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          1 year ago

          I fail to understand how opening a web site, which is all a browser does, can be defined as ‘cluttered’, but my use case is security while appears yours is to let corpos rummage through your files.

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            It’s inconvenient and disorganized to have it as an extra tab (taking up tab space) or browser window (same symbols), also it runs smoother for me within the app.

            but my use case is security while appears yours is to let corpos rummage through your files

            I care about UX & seems like I’m not the only one at that. If I would care about privacy and security I wouldn’t use discord, but matrix or sth.

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          1 year ago

          It works better only because they intentionally hamstring the browser so you’ll do exactly that.

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          That’s why I like Chrome’s (and various Chromium browsers’) ability to app-ify sites. Will create a .app in MacOS, .desktop in Linux, etc. Launches as what looks like an independent app with its own dock/launcher icon. Utilizes most of their PWA stuff.

          Sadly, it looks like Chrome has hidden the option completely in the latest version unless you set a flag that will probably go away in a few releases. Edge makes it pretty clear.

          I wish Firefox would bring the feature back. They deprecated it years ago and I use it heavily (only reason/time I use Chromium stuff on most of my machines)

    • Durotar@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Discord is a web app, there’s no other way. You either use your main browser or the one they’re bundling it with.

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        1 year ago

        If it’s just a WebApp, then why does one of the commenters have issues to run it without the browser?

        See: https://feddit.de/comment/2192027

        Edit: And I know that you’re right technically, still there is a difference in how you run it when using a browser vs Webapp.

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          Theoretically, it may have additional features when it’s bundled with Electron, but ultimately there’s nothing wrong with running it in the browser.