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Ok I'm getting tired of this habit of deep linking to apps. The apps either override existing web pages featuring the same content, or there's a web redirect to
by geuis 2y ago
Ok I'm getting tired of this habit of deep linking to apps. The apps either override existing web pages featuring the same content, or there's a web redirect to an app I might have installed but am not signed into. So in multiple cases, it's difficult to just read whatever the information is.
Web pages are universally accessible. Everyone has a browser on their device of choice. The web is 35 years old. Access to information is a solved problem.
Guess I'm just complaining. There are just so many links being submitted to HN these days that require accounts or specific apps installed. Feels like there should be a rule around this.
- isatty 2y agoWhat is being deeplinked? I was able to read the page and click on the pictures all in my browser (iOS safari).
- hombre_fatal 2y agoThey mean how the phone lets apps handle browser urls instead of just opening the url in the browser.
- ludwik 2y agoThat’s not deep linking (i.e., something set up by the person posting the link). It’s simply the specific device being configured to handle regular web links differently.
- jeffbee 2y agoWhat are you even talking about? It is literally a website.
- geuis 2y agoI have the Bluesky app installed but I'm not logged in. So the website link is also being treated as an app deep link. It opens the app instead of just opening the website. I don't have a lot of familiarity with app deep links, but my understanding is that originally deep links required a special non-domain to be registered that was separate from a normal web url. Somewhere that's changed over the years and now regular web links like this default to opening in apps if the user has them installed.
- jeffbee 2y agoI use Bluesky all the time and I have never installed the app on any platform. I suggest getting rid of it, if you're such a fan of the web.
- ludwik 2y agoBut that's not OP deep linking to an app - it's just a normal website URL. It's you having your user agent configured to launch an app for this particular domain. Nothing that OP can do about that.
- lynndotpy 2y agoIs your device running iOS or iPadOS? This is default and non-configurable behavior. Even github.com will open in the GitHub app if you have it installed. I understand the confusion (and frustration), but this is just a normal URL. The .app is just an ordinary TLD (but one of the newer ones.)
- mr_mitm 2y agoThere is no such thing as a deep link. If you don't like how your client device handles links, re-configure it or, if that's not possible, use a different device. The problem here is on your end.
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- dbetteridge 2y agoNah totally agreed, pet peeve of mine is trying to open a link in my browser to a website and my phone decides it knows better and insists on redirecting me to "The App" (which I've never installed and don't want, so it sends me to download it)
- esperent 2y agoI don't have the bsky app, nor am I logged in on my phone's browser, and this opened fine for me. No app redirects.
- hipadev23 2y agoThe link works fine for me? Not logged in nor do I have bluesky. Loads in chrome, I can see the 3 images, and quite a few comments beneath their post
- deadbabe 2y agoThe nefarious thing is some people will tell you there’s nothing wrong with the link and gaslight you into thinking you’re crazy – because they don’t have the Bluesky app installed.
- nick__m 2y agoThere is nothing wrong with the link. The only thing wrong is your poor understanding of your user agent behavior !
- jeffbee 2y agoYou're saying the OP has configured their user agent to launch an app for this URL and somehow that's me gaslighting?
- danparsonson 2y agoI imagine that's the joke they're making, yes
- Aurornis 2y ago> and gaslight you I have the Bluesky app installed and did not see a pop-up. It’s not “gaslighting”. It’s people having different experiences due to different OSes and settings. It’s amazing how meaningless the word gaslighting has become.
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- mr_mitm 2y agoWhat is it that is supposed to be wrong with the link? .app is a regular TLD, the host name resolves to a regular IP address and there is a regular web server returning regular HTML.
- lynndotpy 2y agoOn iOS and iPadOS, even github.com links will do this with the GitHub app installed. We're complaining about a completely normal URL that links to a normal webpage. This is very, very silly.
- dillydogg 2y agoI think this must be a setting on your device to open links in the app.
- benreesman 2y agoI don’t know why you’re getting dogpiled over this, it’s a terrible experience of creeping non-consensual computation. I had the official bsky app installed, but I ended up with Graysky at some point and just forgot about it, and somewhere along the way my browser vendor (Apple) and the app vendor (bsky) decided that I would probably tolerate this horseshit. Reddit pulls the same shit but that’s extra special because it’s broken, so it goes to the App Store screen for Reddit and you just can’t load it at all without a laptop. If you’re one of the people arguing this is cool you’re ugly and stupid like people who disagree with Linus.
- yarg 2y agoBecause the problem is perfectly avoidable with very little technical understanding, and this is Hacker News.
- jdiff 2y agoYour device is misconfigured. That's not HN's fault, what has been posted is a completely ordinary link that would function in a perfectly ordinary way if you had configured your device properly. This wouldn't even be CLOSED WONTFIX, there is literally nothing that anyone but you could do to fix this.
- never_inline 2y ago> non consensual computation Gonna steal this one.
- 0x38B 2y agoIf you’re on iOS, long-pressing on the bsky.app link in Safari and choosing “open” will open the link in Safari and remember your choice; the same works for YouTube links, etc.
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]