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All of which is a feature, not a bug: it makes the prompt more expensive to implement and way more intrusive to the user, meaning significantly less likely for drive-by prompter to implement.

Further bonus: no unstable proprietary API to reverse-engineer and implement and it teaches the user that there's nothing specific to it, they can pin any site they commonly use to their home page whether that site provides specific PWA support or not, such that they can perform the action at any point they want.

The browser is simpler, the method is less scammy and the user is empowered.



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