I hope youre having a chill Sunday and if you are Im sorry but think about how frustrating and annoying in-app browsers are, especially on the iPhone where the experience is just god awful and maybe worse for privacy. Anyway ban in-app browsers happy Sunday.
You should have made a Verge article instead and posted it on Twitter so we could feel the pain of said in-app browser.
Unfortunately I don`t think the apps themselves will ever do anything about this. I assume if something lets you leave the app in some way, a developer gets fired. If they could work out how to disable the home action they`d do it.
One of the few things where iOS feels archaic compared to Android. 9/10 apps open an in app browser instead of opening the dedicated Facebook/Twitter/YouTube/Reddit apps I already have installed. SMH.
Yes! Been wanting this for years! Amazing how in Gmail, even if you tell it to open in Safari it still opened in-app. Awful experience. Imagine if this BS was on Desktop?!
Samsung is super guilty here too, never k ow what my D20 is gonna open a link with
See I like the sentiment but I disabled that in Facebook so all links would go to my browser. All of a sudden I had 30+ tabs in Edge and it was a mess.
Instagram is definitely monitoring everything you do
I was just Googling a fix for Instagram`s shitty in-app browser. Looks like I`m stuck with it though
I think theres something even worse - that theres no way to disable auto-playing videos in any of the iOS Web browsers. This really, really irritates me!
I actually dont mind it as its probably a page I will only visit once, hence it wont clutter my safari tabs with single visit sites (that I most likely dont bother to close)
I hate when they cannot be disabled in an Android app. I have plugins that I use in my browser, but in apps don`t have that. Frustrating.
Apple should offer an api to open a safari tab within the application like Android offers with Chrome custom tabs (that any other browser can also support). The tab opened on Android has the same cookies as the default browser and offers basic features + open website in chrome.
Couldn`t be me First world problems. You guys complain for anytime
I`m with you 100%. Ban in-app browsers now!
Hahahahahaha SO TRUEEE!!! Apple should ELIMINATE IT, I think we should bombard them with feedbacks on it at I still don`t understand why there isn`t a system wide option (both Android and iPhone) to disable in app browsers.
I truly, truly hate how the Android Outlook app has forced all links to be opened with their own dreadful in-app browser. I have never figured out how to disable that behaviour.
I`ve set those apps which allow it, which seems to be most of them, to use my default browser instead of the in-app one. I`m on Android, of course.
What are your thoughts on the app service for unifying all chat platforms? I`m excited to try it out
My favorite is when your in click on a link to a news article that contains an embedded tweet. You click on the tweet and keeps you in the browser window so you cant interact with it b/c youre not logged in.
Haha I know, right? Theyre breaking the web. A small company now has to optimize their own site because if they want to post links on social, their customers are browsing in-app. And, btw, any plug-in or 3rd party SAAS script has to work, too, or they risk losing signups, transactions, etc.
Ugh the Instagram one is insane. It straight up tries to be a replacement browser with its own freaking auto fill implementation. So creepy.
Web apps on the iPad. Thats all.
That reminds me. Why did Twitter take away the option to disable in app browsing on iOS?
I hate it on too! The problem is when you use the in-app browsers the autofill doesn`t work, and you have to login again in every website that opens! When someone sent you an link on or any apps, the in-app browser pop-up instead of the app..
in-app browsers are the FBI agents we "never knew" we had
Can you explain whats bad about how iOS implements this? Cheers.
Particularly when clicking on YOUTUBE LINKS
Well My Sunday is going to end in T - 3 seconds.
please fix this in the next iOS
