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Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
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Re: Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
#462I’m not surprised and it’s really annoying apps still use in-app browsers. I remember even Telegram had that at one point, with link opening only on in-app browser(at least on iOS). But what really annoys me is that most of the users, e.g. my girlfriend, have NO IDEA about the difference, it’s just a browsing window, no matter in-app, which engine, with which privacy feature. Perhaps os vendors should show more obvio…
in-app browsers are a much better UX imo, solution is to make them safe, not get rid of them, as they solve a real ux use case
How is the UX better? It is just a browser window with half of the features.
I turn it off in every app I can and miss the old version of Firefox that had the option to disable them altogether.
Re: Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
#463Earlier quoted context omitted.
in-app browsers are a much better UX imo, solution is to make them safe, not get rid of them, as they solve a real ux use case
How is the UX better? It is just a browser window with half of the features. I turn it off in every app I can and miss the old version of Firefox that had the option to disable them altogether.
it's not the browser itself, it's the experience of staying in app when clicking a link. for example when going through a paygate that redirects to a browser. i don't want to leave the app, then come back in manually. with an in app browser it works seamlessly.
Re: Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
#464Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is the UX better? It is just a browser window with half of the features. I turn it off in every app I can and miss the old version of Firefox that had the option to disable them altogether.
it's not the browser itself, it's the experience of staying in app when clicking a link. for example when going through a paygate that redirects to a browser. i don't want to leave the app, then come back in manually. with an in app browser it works seamlessly.
What does "in app" do differently? On Android the only thing I can think of that is different is that if I open the app switcher the tab is in a different app.
But I think I prefer that because if I click around a bit I can switch back to the app that spawned the tab directly instead if hitting back a load of times.
Re: Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
#465Would it be possible for Apple to create an acceptable user experience if they only allowed opening up links in Safari instead of embedded web frame?
Re: Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
#466Earlier quoted context omitted.
You rightly point out that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But then neither is it evidence. Which leaves both sides at: we don't really know. Anecdotes are worth crap all, because people will bring up examples for either side thus cancelling each other out. But your last sentence irked me. If you side with liberty and tolerance and advise friends and family not to do "bad thing", they can say they app…
OH NO!!!! I couldn't figure out why it irked you because I totally agreed with what you said, and then I realized I typo'ed in the worst place. It would have irked me too. I said: > I don't think there's a big difference between But I meant: > *I DO think there's a big difference between
A minor misunderstanding easily cleared up then.
It gives me a little bit more faith in humanity when I agree with a random stranger on the internet. :-)
Re: Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
#467I was super confused by this since to the best of my knowledge SFSafariViewController blocks anything like this, you, as a developer, cannot inject anything or peak into the view it creates. Then I got to the bottom and realized I was correct, but FB/Meta/IG/etc aren't using SFSafariViewController and instead using the older ways to embed a web view. Honestly I thought all other methods had been deprecated and had no…
But the solution isn't to enforce a specific browser or way to access web content. The solution is to educate users about the toxic software landscape on smartphones and the security threats of using apps. Ironically these supposedly checked apps behave vastly worse than the vast majority of software you can just install on a less locked down system. Because there the better alternatives mostly win.
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This is why https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/sfs... exists and why the blog post advocates for using it.
That was a great update, but still not a true browser. No tabs, no bookmarks. Why should the website be restricted to one tab? Just open Safari and be done with it.
If you want a true browser there's always the option to move the current page from the in-app Safari View to the full browser.
In many cases I'd like to stay within the app. Those in-app Safari Webviews allows that. And if it is a website I'd like to browse in my usual, more permanent browsing evironment I always have th eoption to do so.
This two step approach is more useful to me than always opening links in the browser.
Re: Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
#469Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's not the browser itself, it's the experience of staying in app when clicking a link. for example when going through a paygate that redirects to a browser. i don't want to leave the app, then come back in manually. with an in app browser it works seamlessly.
What does "in app" do differently? On Android the only thing I can think of that is different is that if I open the app switcher the tab is in a different app. But I think I prefer that because if I click around a bit I can switch back to the app that spawned the tab directly instead if hitting back a load of times.
when in-app and i close the browser i'm back in the app. this isn't the case if i'm redirected to a different browser application. That's quite a big deal