Yes, the intended target audience is desperate addicts who can be tricked into committing a crime that doesn’t actually benefit them at all. benefits society.
All I see are people talking about consumer apps that could be websites, but it’s a problem in the business world, too. My small business makes a service for other small businesses and all our big competitors use apps for their system while we use a web app. Some even restrict to only iOS or Android, too. It blows our potential customers’ minds when they see that ours is just a website with at least as much functionality as the competition and the ability to access it from anything.
I have no idea why anyone would do it differently as it’s WAY easier/cheaper to maintain this website than deal with app ecosystems. And there simply aren’t enough users in this space to merit data scraping like with consumer apps.
Or worse… maybe they expect us to go down to the local warehouse and pick the items we want to buy off the shelves ourselves instead of having them delivered. Ugh.