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by gfaster 1477 days ago
On the flip side, I find that opening links in isolated sessions very valuable, if not just because I don't want links sent by others to affect the Algorithm's perception of me. 80% of the time, I want to be a blank slate when interacting with in-app browsers.
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pbronez 1477 days ago
I really want the choice. I hate that most iOS apps want to open links in their own webview instead of my default browser. Of course, when they DO use the default browser, I would like to have control over what context that browser uses to handle the link. Default? Private? Task-specific tab/container group? Ask me, please.
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jakub_g 1476 days ago
On Android, if you have more than 1 browser, and no default browser app (settings / apps / default apps / browser app), clicking a link will ask you which browser you want to use. For random one-time-usage links, I use Firefox Focus for that purpose. When it's closed it wipes all history, cookies etc. automatically.

Meanwhile if the stupid app decides to hijack the link and use in-app browser, you can't do that. And IAB typically means you can't have app and browser in parallel and switch between them from app launcher, which would be sometimes useful. Slack does that, and it's annoying. But at least you can right click> copy URL and open it manually in preferred browser.

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