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Sorry to be dimissive, I know it's good intentions and all, but please don't do that. We don't need any more unsolicited banners or prompts. See it's one reason native apps are so much preferred over websites. Websites always have banners and whatnot, good apps don't do these things.

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Fully agree. I'd say that there should be an agreed-upon way for users to opt out of any kind of obnoxious banner/"dickbar" but it'd probably be obeyed about as often as the "do not track" flag was.

A floppy disk icon somewhere that will download the PWA.

floppy disk? what's that? why would I ever click that?

> We don't need any more unsolicited banners or prompts.

If you open https://squoosh.app on a phone (or in browser dev tools emulating a phone), you will see what I think is a great example of use of an install prompt that I personally would be totally ok with.

screenshot – https://i.imgur.com/NALZpz8.png

> on a phone (or in browser dev tools emulating a phone)

or on any browser supporting Web Apps (like recent versions of Chrome/Chromium)

I actually tried it in Chrome on MacOS before writing my comment, and did not see the Install button, but only the tiny install hint in the url bar. That surprised me, because I clearly remembered the button; which is why I thought that maybe the button only appears on mobile browsers where it's harder to find the install option in browser's own ui. But now when I open it again in desktop Chrome, there it is, the Install button. Strange.

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