Eli5: Why do websites want you to download their app?

• Pi-hole

  2,357 46,711 8.0 Shell

  A black hole for Internet advertisements

  

That's where pi-hole or DuckDuckGo's app tracking protection come in very handy.

• SmartTube

  1,199 16,005 9.9 Java

  SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tvs running Android OS

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• WaveMaker-Novel-Writing-Software-Version-3

  127 66 3.1 JavaScript

  Version 3 of the Wavemaker Novel Writing Software

Ok ... As someone who built a Progressive Web App (PWA) (https://wavemaker.co.uk) The app part can do some amazingly cool stuff - It does not NEED to be installed , but the user gets a better experience from it.

• hardened_malloc

  652 1,152 7.9 C

  Hardened allocator designed for modern systems. It has integration into Android's Bionic libc and can be used externally with musl and glibc as a dynamic library for use on other Linux-based platforms. It will gain more portability / integration over time.

  

If people want a more secure and private Android experience, I recommend checking out https://grapheneos.org/

• AdAway

  201 6,490 8.8 C

  AdAway is a free and open source ad blocker for Android.

  

I use AdAway. They're an OG in Android ad blocking. I've been using their app for at least 11 years, maybe 12! It works great, but you need root.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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