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leksyib
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In-app browsers in mobile apps are so fucking pointless. People have default browsers for a reason. Why the fuck would I want to open external links in your shitty in-app browser?

- Deep-linking wouldn’t work.
- Users might not be authenticated to view the external links so they’ll need to sign the fuck in again - through your app.

Why the fuck do people do this shit?

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  • 4
    Never experienced issues with it but essentially, you're totally right. Wtf?
  • 2
    @nitwhiz Android apps be like.

    In-app browser is a PITA!
  • 3
    I don't like them either, but at least for someone who does everything in incognito, I don't have to worry about having to copy a link to an incognito tab if tapping it just opens it in-app in its own session.
  • 3
    @bananaerror good idea too. It should have been one of the options to choose from - in "Open with..."
  • 2
    @vintprox Oh I wish! Then in-app isn't needed at all.
  • 2
    @bananaerror It doesn't. If youre logged into chrome, the visited links turn up in your history. Had to learn that the hard way lol.
  • 2
    @nitwhiz wait hold up, for real? i never tested it, i just assumed apps wouldnt have access
  • 6
    Greedy fucks want every last bit of data they can get their mits on.
  • 2
    @bananaerror I'm 100% sure I had a really awkward entry in my history during a screenshare after visiting some _weird_ subreddits the night before, where the imgur links were opened in the in-app browser...

    It's a chrome webview thingy on android after all, i guess they sync the cookies and stuff.
  • 3
    @bananaerror just tested it again, to be sure, with reddit. Visited links show up in my google chrome history, even in the reddit anonymous mode.
  • 3
    @nitwhiz well that sucks lmao
  • 1
    @leksyib guess i actually experienced issues with it, eh?:D

    The more I think about it, the concept sucks fucking ass, authenticated or not, you're totally right.

    In the end, I want a single viewer for webpages, not a different kind of view for every little thing.
  • 3
    @nitwhiz oh no .. my entire life has been a lie
  • 1
    @nitwhiz @bananaerror & @leksyib
    And, well, security?
    In app browsers are updating the same interval as the main app.
    At best!

    Yerp, @homo-lorens, them greedy fucks.
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