Samuel
poll: should this be enabled by default (spoilers: it's 100x nicer than being kicked out to the web browser)
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Zaratzara
No way. Internalising the application navigation context model is onerous enough (where am I, which UI controls will get me far enough back to where I was); determining that actioning an http link is a further subsidiary context within that is nightmarish.
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Zaratzara
Ingenious compromise, but even if so the default option should still be to open in the browser proper. Facebook & co have a vested interest in keeping The Internet as an obscured and limited subsidiary component to their totalising application experience.
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Samuel
facebook would prefer you to open a new tab in the default browser, since the in-app browser keeps a separate set of cookies and thus makes tracking harder
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Tilde Swiñton
Not true. Facebook has actually disabled opening links in the default browser (on Android anyway), so everything stays in-app. You have to download an old APK to find the option, turn it on, and then update your Facebook app to the current version to be able to do that.
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Samuel
@samuel.fm
I’m not talking about the Facebook app I’m talking about my app
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