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‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (1 children)

apps allow user tracking and advertising though. Much more valuable to the corpos than a few lost customers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Also mich More valuable to Google, as they are the biggest Advertising company. I looked it up and according to this source they have ~70% of the pay-per-click market.