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@bananaerror good idea too. It should have been one of the options to choose from - in "Open with..."
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@vintprox Oh I wish! Then in-app isn't needed at all.
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@bananaerror It doesn't. If youre logged into chrome, the visited links turn up in your history. Had to learn that the hard way lol.
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@nitwhiz wait hold up, for real? i never tested it, i just assumed apps wouldnt have access
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@bananaerror I'm 100% sure I had a really awkward entry in my history during a screenshare after visiting some _weird_ subreddits the night before, where the imgur links were opened in the in-app browser...
It's a chrome webview thingy on android after all, i guess they sync the cookies and stuff. -
@bananaerror just tested it again, to be sure, with reddit. Visited links show up in my google chrome history, even in the reddit anonymous mode.
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@nitwhiz well that sucks lmao
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@leksyib guess i actually experienced issues with it, eh?:D
The more I think about it, the concept sucks fucking ass, authenticated or not, you're totally right.
In the end, I want a single viewer for webpages, not a different kind of view for every little thing. -
@nitwhiz oh no .. my entire life has been a lie
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@nitwhiz @bananaerror & @leksyib
And, well, security?
In app browsers are updating the same interval as the main app.
At best!
Yerp, @homo-lorens, them greedy fucks.
In-app browsers in mobile apps are so fucking pointless. People have default browsers for a reason. Why the fuck would I want to open external links in your shitty in-app browser?
- Deep-linking wouldn’t work.
- Users might not be authenticated to view the external links so they’ll need to sign the fuck in again - through your app.
Why the fuck do people do this shit?
rant