If we were able to ignore Apple's unconscionably low level of investment in WebKit, I think we'd all be upset that com.facebook.* is the new IE 6-11 Yes, Android's WebView can be used to make a browser. No, it is not functional without a *lot* of work: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView …
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There are so many tech journalists who can't see past Apple's monopoly on Shit Rich People Do, then write think pieces about "what if FB made a browser?" Hot tip from a browser engineer: FB makes a *wildly successful* browser, and it *sucks*
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I love this thread, agree with you 100% on Facebook's move being not cool at all. But what do you expect small developers or users to do? What's their leverage? Isn't Google in a more powerful place? Can't Google say "that shit stops, or we stop approving your app?"
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There’s a long history of muckracking posts by developers changing vendor behavior. One might argue that FB is so utterly shameless that they are immune to this sort of hectoring, but not even I am that cynical (yet). Good folks work there; want to do right. Need the opening.
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Get Apple and Android to stop in app browsers and open any links in the default browser perhaps
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/me ? https://redaktor.me/apconf/ in a week : A conference about the present and future of ActivityPub, the world’s leading federated social web standard. Facebook might got the bigger conferences but we have got the charming ones … Would be cool if journalists "discover" it …
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I’d like to see Google and Apple step up here and push back. Just like how ads got so out of hand and pervasive, it’s because companies like FB have been allowed to get away with it for so many years. Time to make a change?
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I also suspect that targeted ads and tracking are the primary reasons that FB uses its own in-app “browser”, but that’s just an assumption.
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If Google prevents them from having their own "browser", is that not a violation of antitrust similar to that of Microsoft in 1999?
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They can still have their own browser. It just needs to be installed as a browser like firefox or chrome and accept all links.
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