alt Hacker NewsSimilarly... I _really_ dislike clicking a link in Safari on iOS and it opening an App instead of going to the web page. I have the YouTube app installed and use it on occasion, but its really jarring when I click an organic search result in Duck and get launched into an app that may not have the same privacy settings my browser is setup with.
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loloquwowndueo • 11/04/2025
Pro tip, links clicked in private mode will always ask you before opening the app, so you can say no.
stephen_g • 11/04/2025
I end up just using YouTube through the browser and only installing the app when I need to download videos, e.g. for a plane trip, and then uninstalling it after I land.
renewiltord • 11/04/2025
Brave prompts you before doing that. Then you can long press to new tab.
Ironically, I have the opposite complaint with YouTube, particularly with these new Twitter web views. It takes 3 “navigations” now to get to the iOS YouTube app: one to open the Twitter web view, one to open that URL in Safari, then one to open at YouTube video in the native app.