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Because I don't necessarily want the link I'm visiting cluttering my history and tabs, and I probably don't want the site in question to have access to my cooki

Because I don't necessarily want the link I'm visiting cluttering my history and tabs, and I probably don't want the site in question to have access to my cookies and whatnot. It's much more likely that I'll check out random links in apps (HN client, reddit, twitter, etc) if I know SFSafariViewController will be there to act as a wall between the visited site and my primary browsing setup. The only thing I can see acting as a replacement is iOS offering to open links from external apps in a private browsing tab instead of a regular one.

kelnos 4y ago
> * probably don't want the site in question to have access to my cookies and whatnot* Er, why not? Sites don't get access to any random old cookie, they get access to cookies they themselves have set before (more or less). Why should a tap from a native app be any different wrt cookie access than if you navigated to the site yourself in the web browser?
- MaxBarraclough 4y ago
  > Sites don't get access to any random old cookie, they get access to cookies they themselves have set before (more or less). Well, kinda. Remember Facebook are able to track people around the web using their famous embedded Like button. This happens regardless of whether the button is clicked. This is unfortunately under-reported, so I'll make do with linking to, of all places, BuzzFeed: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/heres-how-facebook-tracks-you-when-youre-not-on-facebook https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/heres-ho...
  - ccouzens 4y ago
    My reply is also to the parent comment. This behaviour is possible because most browsers aren't configured to block third party cookies. Make sure you've set yours to do so, and embedded content like Facebook's like button will see you as a fresh user every time.
ccouzens 4y ago
My solution to not having content aggregator sites like hacker news cluttering up my history is to use them from a private tab. I suppose on the desktop you could also use Firefox's containers.

kelnos 4y ago

> * probably don't want the site in question to have access to my cookies and whatnot* Er, why not? Sites don't get access to any random old cookie, they get access to cookies they themselves have set before (more or less). Why should a tap from a native app be any different wrt cookie access than if you navigated to the site yourself in the web browser?

MaxBarraclough 4y ago
> Sites don't get access to any random old cookie, they get access to cookies they themselves have set before (more or less). Well, kinda. Remember Facebook are able to track people around the web using their famous embedded Like button. This happens regardless of whether the button is clicked. This is unfortunately under-reported, so I'll make do with linking to, of all places, BuzzFeed: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/heres-how-facebook-tracks-you-when-youre-not-on-facebook https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/heres-ho...
- ccouzens 4y ago
  My reply is also to the parent comment. This behaviour is possible because most browsers aren't configured to block third party cookies. Make sure you've set yours to do so, and embedded content like Facebook's like button will see you as a fresh user every time.

ccouzens 4y ago

My solution to not having content aggregator sites like hacker news cluttering up my history is to use them from a private tab. I suppose on the desktop you could also use Firefox's containers.