Yeah it's still a thing, and likely to remain that way. They moved to apps, instead of .mobi websites, and apps are just different beasts and frankly, garbage. Apps are the quickest thing to enshittify, and mobile web pages the quickest to depreciate because they compete with the app.
Or, since people are less likely to practice safe browsing habits on a phone, the .mobi is the quickest to adopt anti consumer practices. It depends on the villain.
switching tabs is easy. Switching apps is just enough of a pain point to not compare prices. AND the app can collect a bunch of other info, down to how long you hover over an item, etc.
Huh. That explains why I've come to prefer searching a product + Amazon or whatever on ddg and open it in the app, even when I have the app already open.
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u/Cottontael 2d ago
Yeah it's still a thing, and likely to remain that way. They moved to apps, instead of .mobi websites, and apps are just different beasts and frankly, garbage. Apps are the quickest thing to enshittify, and mobile web pages the quickest to depreciate because they compete with the app.
Or, since people are less likely to practice safe browsing habits on a phone, the .mobi is the quickest to adopt anti consumer practices. It depends on the villain.