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weird-eye-issuetoday at 4:42 AM2 repliesview on HN

Embedded webviews are the stupidest thing ever. Yesterday I got halfway through a checkout process, had to go back to another app to check something, and then the webview simply disappeared so I didn't bother finishing the checkout. This was on Android

Usually I open it in Chrome but for some reason I didn't realize it was a webview this time


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OptionOfTtoday at 5:04 AM

Embedded WebViews are a way to track you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32514793

mgrandltoday at 6:19 AM

I disable them on every app that lets me. It is in every way worse UX than simply opening the browser.