The Reddit example extends to Android as a whole - I can't speak to Apple iOS due to inexperience.
Browsing websites with a companion app always prompts you to view in the app or install the app, and the presentation is always biased toward doing so instead of declining. I wish there was an option to indicate that you don't want to be prompted in this fashion in the future - either all around, or to have it remember specific apps that you don't want to install.
It really is a persistent annoyance. The Reddit website in full desktop mode has also recently been pestering users about logging in, and it does so every time you navigate to the site if you aren't already logged in to an existing account.
It is really quite annoying, and has actively caused me to use the site less. I'm much less likely to use a timesink or unfocused browsing activity if I'm being pestered while doing so. I imagine that this type of activity is a significant portion of the whole for such websites, so it really seems disingenuous, unless their long-term plan is to pull a Facebook and focus on revenue through selling user data to third parties (which I imagine is most likely the case).
Browsing websites with a companion app always prompts you to view in the app or install the app, and the presentation is always biased toward doing so instead of declining. I wish there was an option to indicate that you don't want to be prompted in this fashion in the future - either all around, or to have it remember specific apps that you don't want to install.
It really is a persistent annoyance. The Reddit website in full desktop mode has also recently been pestering users about logging in, and it does so every time you navigate to the site if you aren't already logged in to an existing account.
It is really quite annoying, and has actively caused me to use the site less. I'm much less likely to use a timesink or unfocused browsing activity if I'm being pestered while doing so. I imagine that this type of activity is a significant portion of the whole for such websites, so it really seems disingenuous, unless their long-term plan is to pull a Facebook and focus on revenue through selling user data to third parties (which I imagine is most likely the case).