HOW are apps able to push updates without me manually going and updating the app?

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Specifically, im talking about TikTok and Facebook. Around the time TT added the tap and hold fast forward, I turned off auto-updates bc the ads were getting worse. Since then, there’s now the ads when you first open the app AND the ones when you watch a video to the end.

Also, when FB added the AI search bar, I deleted it, downloaded an APK from early 2023 and turned off auto-updates. It was fine at first, but I just saw that the AI search bar was added again.

How can these apps add features like this without me updated the app myself?

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many apps these days are just webpages. The app that you download from the store is just a web browser that only renders that webpage. The app then askes Facebook’s servers “Yo, what ‘webpage’ should I be rendering from the user today?” and Facebook sends out the current copy of the “app”

Another potential problem I have noticed is auto-updates in play store dont seem to turn off correctly per app, I had to turn of ALL updates to prevent auto-updates for any apps.

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