In-App Browsers subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites and enable applications to severely undermine user privacy🪲🕵️

In-App Browsers hurt consumers, developers and damage the entire web ecosystem👎

👇Read our regulatory submission
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/in-app-browsers-the-worst-erosion-of-user-choice-you-havent-heard-of/

In-App Browsers: The worst erosion of user choice you haven't heard of - Open Web Advocacy

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@owa I get super annoyed when I get kicked out of an app when I tap on a link. In-app browsers are a good thing. It lets me make a quick choice if that link matters to me or not. Usually, if it's something I care about long term after a quick in-app preview, I'll open it in a browser of my choice. Especially with iOS Handoff, it's a seamless process where I can open that link on the desktop and continue on, if that's something I choose to do.

It's clear you hate native apps. That's fine. But I do ask that you and the army you're building is not used to take functionality away from a platform I find useful, and take down the entire ecosystem out of spite, simply because they're not web apps. Choice is good.

@gabek hi Gabe! We don’t hate native apps at all, we just hate native apps the undermine user choice, privacy and the web.

Remote tab in-app browsers that respect user choice keep the properties you want, but respect user choice and privacy.

We agree that many users like being able to easily return to the app & without leaving a new tab in their browser, and we’re not looking to change that one iota.

Please read our regulatory submission, all of the nuance is explained in full!