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I find it infuriating when I am on google, click a link and the yelp app just opens without any sort of warning. Youtube isnt far behind. If i already had som
by basch 8y ago
I find it infuriating when I am on google, click a link and the yelp app just opens without any sort of warning. Youtube isnt far behind. If i already had something open in one of those apps, and was coming back to it, my state is cleared.
- philsnow 8y agoThat doesn't happen if you don't have the yelp app installed. Don't reward their shitty dark patterns[0] by installing their app. They have a site that is perfectly amenable to being consumed in a web browser on your phone. They're _already done the work_ to make it work well on your phone, but then they kneecapped it and turned the hard work of all those engineers and designers into lead-gen for their app so they can get your location data. m.yelp.com: This page will open in another application. me: tHiS PAgE wiLl OPEn iN aNOtheR ApPliCaTIon. [0] You can only see the first few pictures, you can only read the first fifty words of each review, and every attempt to go beyond that[1] is met with a redirect to the App Store app [1] no, they don't make it clear that clicking that "read more" link is going to send you to another app.
- basch 8y agoto me its more the operating system and or browser fault. we have PROTOCOL already. if i want it to open in yelp it should either start the link with yelp:// or food:// and my os should default to my default food app. if its https:// https:// keep it in my damn browser. google should let me set link rewrite settings per site or type, if i say for example WANT https://youtube https://youtube to be rewritten on the fly as youtube://filename