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To play the devil's advocate here. There are many app that have the option for opening link in them (facebook, twitter, reddit, the HN client Materialistic...).
by nsonha 6y ago
To play the devil's advocate here. There are many app that have the option for opening link in them (facebook, twitter, reddit, the HN client Materialistic...). The reason for that I'm guessing is that when you are in the "reading mode" which can be the case for links in email, you don't want to go to another app an back, you just want to read/skim the thing and go back to your master view with the rest of the emails. In addition, actually think this is a good thing to shield user from tracking and unintended authorization. You're just one more touch away if you really need to be logged in some services.
- Ntrails 6y agoI wish there was a way to disable "WOULD YOU RATHER USE THE APP OR CONTINUE IN YOUR BROWSER" popup forever. It's a webpage. I'm going to open it like a webpage
- Symbiote 6y agoI think a good part of the reason is so Facebook/Twitter/Reddit/Metiralistic can continue to track the user. I want everything to open in Firefox on Android, so uBlock etc can operate as normal. I don't know how it works, but often pressing "back" takes me back to my email etc, leaving other open Firefox tabs as they were.
- 0xdeadb00f 6y agoI don't think Materialistic uses it to track users. The browser tab on the side, is quite handy for switching between article and comments. It's just a good feature, and they don't roll their own Webview either. It's open source too: https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
- andybak 6y ago> you don't want to go to another app and back Why would the user care? Switching to your default browser on mobile is usually instantaneous. I.e. there's no downside compared to launching a webview.