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1. samwil+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-01-24 11:39:57
One of the things the UK Competition Commission is also looking into as part of this investigation is "In App Browsers" (IABs). They need to die in a fire.

In app browsers are designed to lock the user into the app they are currently using, allowing it to track the user after they have followed a link, and coerce them to come back. For the websites being visited (on iOS) this is a separate session, no shared cookies with the main browser. This fundamentally breaks shopping carts on online stores, and I have seen it result in a 50% drop out rate at checkout (users often don't have access to their stored card details).

I frankly can't understand why there has not been more push back from advertisers using platforms such as Facebook, they are only a net negative for them.

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2. djxfad+H6[view] [source] 2023-01-24 12:32:28
>>samwil+(OP)
Yeah, it would be nice if we could at least have a system preference that forced the iab api to open the url as a regular browser tab.
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