Here's the "fun" Hotel California of FB's In-App-Browser opt-out flow. Unlike many other settings, it does not sync across devices (wonder why that is?). (thread!)https://twitter.com/stefanpenner/status/1167547713765855232 …
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Turns out that "links open externally" is the magic sauce. But good fucking luck trying to figure that out or get there from search:pic.twitter.com/ip7fpVYMqJ
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Every single thing about this is intentional. Each of these choices was wordsmithed and perhaps even A/A-A/B tested. Nothing about how hard this is can be an accident.
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A product manager *absolutely* signed-off on these strings. They're unsearchable & unfindable + the behavior is unprompted/unconfirmed at sign-in, not because someone was "evil". Probably "just" a blindspot. The web is collateral damage.
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...does this even exist on iOS? I was just resigned to Facebook being a bad citizen about opening links and not burying the native share action three layers deep.

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IDK. Wasn't happy to install their spyware on anything more than an Android I was gonna wipe in short order anyhow and I'm sure as hell not letting it anywhere near my iOS devices.
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"Links open externally" is not under "News Feed Preferences," though (for me, anyway) — it's under the next one, "Media and Contacts." What a shitshow.
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Yeah I don't have that under News Feed Preferencespic.twitter.com/I6GzfgwaQ2
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