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This is a reminder that technology isn't the issue anymore. (we solved messaging since the AIM days). The only thing slowing down technology today is wall gardens. You can't count how many years too late Snapchat is. Even if you use both hands.
> The only thing slowing down technology today is wall gardens. Hopefully with the EU's DMA this will change.
Does it enforce unified communication protocols allowing the good old Trillian days?
Ah, Snap loves being weird for the sake of being weird. Snapchat was a constant struggle for me (Gen Z) to operate before I stopped using it. The latest reminder for how hip and weird they are (in their world): The text "web.snapchat.com" is blue, underlined ... but not actually a clickable link. How cute, quirky and hip! The youngsters will love it.
The url works in Firefox, it might not in other browsers because they nested bold and underline tags: web.snapchat.com (as the other person mentioned probably because they used a rich text editor).
(Should work in chrome too)
>Open your laptop and head to web.snapchat.com using Chrome Wow Chrome really is the new IE. Developers are really shooting their future selves in the foot by only developing for Chrome. I don't know about you guys, but I don't want a web (de-facto) controlled by a giant ad company.
I know it will "burn" me one day but having the first one being Snapchat for Web makes me feel a little good.
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I wouldn't normally bring this up but in this case it's a significant oversight: Did you read the comment you've replied to? Grandparent comment explicitly states a rooted android phone cannot install the Snapchat app. Snap has ensured it cannot work on a rooted device (as bank apps also do) to make it difficult to mess with the binary and end up saving or harvesting temporarily viewable content like snaps of genital…
> to make it difficult to mess with the binary and end up saving or harvesting temporarily viewable content Which is funny because it's trivial without any modifications to the device (at least when I last used it). Just record the screen.
>Open your laptop and head to web.snapchat.com using Chrome Wow Chrome really is the new IE. Developers are really shooting their future selves in the foot by only developing for Chrome. I don't know about you guys, but I don't want a web (de-facto) controlled by a giant ad company.
Chrome is forced upon us by the same developers that frequent this forum. Chrome is bad, but webdevs that keep developing Chrome only sites should get the biggest share of the blame.
At the risk of getting downvoted by the Chrome fans, shame on you for pushing forward the Google agenda and its monopoly over the Internet. I guess testing on Firefox or Safari is oh just so hard.
>Open your laptop and head to web.snapchat.com using Chrome Wow Chrome really is the new IE. Developers are really shooting their future selves in the foot by only developing for Chrome. I don't know about you guys, but I don't want a web (de-facto) controlled by a giant ad company.
Just migrated to Firefox from Edge Chromium last night. I know it will "burn" me one day but having the first one being Snapchat for Web makes me feel a little good.
>Open your laptop and head to web.snapchat.com using Chrome Wow Chrome really is the new IE. Developers are really shooting their future selves in the foot by only developing for Chrome. I don't know about you guys, but I don't want a web (de-facto) controlled by a giant ad company.
How could Mozilla be so naive to sit on Google's money to let them propose for DRM standards, privacy violating APIs and suffocate Firefox into irrelevance? Mozilla did that to themselves for years and now they are crying.
Today, Firefox has become extremely irrelevant and totally overtaken by the Chromium derivatives and Safari. The best part is that the users do not care and companies like Snap will favour the most used browser and that is Chrome.
That there is the hard fact of the matter and the web just went from one behemoth (Microsoft) to another (Google). As long as those companies are sitting on the W3C dictating the direction of these web standards, the so called 'open web' is a myth.
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> to make it difficult to mess with the binary and end up saving or harvesting temporarily viewable content Which is funny because it's trivial without any modifications to the device (at least when I last used it). Just record the screen.
IIRC, screen recording or screenshotting will bubble an alert to the other party about what you've done, unless you disconnect from the network or some other shenanigans.