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I hate this trend. I think all the major messenger apps do this now, it was an awful surprise in LINE. The yelp app is basically unusable now for researching ne
by Larrikin 9y ago
I hate this trend. I think all the major messenger apps do this now, it was an awful surprise in LINE. The yelp app is basically unusable now for researching new restaurants since they go so far as to prevent people from popping out into a real browser, and now the Gmail app attempts to lock you in now too.
- huntermeyer 9y agoI hate it too. Mainly because my behavior - especially on Yelp - is to open multiple restaurants in tabs in my browser. Even on mobile. Then I can compare the ones I like. This is impossible within their tabless "embedded" browser. So I end up using my laptop.
- diogenescynic 9y agoYelp has one of the worst and most spiteful mobile websites, too. Most of the features are removed, you’re limited to a handful of pictures and I don’t think you can even read all the reviews. It’s enough to make me not want to use them at all.
- marmaduke 9y agoNot just mobile though: any links in emails in the web version of Googles inbox also open a Google URL first before redirecting to the URL.