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webviews for clicking arbitrary links in apps like instagram or gmail are absurdly restrictive. i lose my context, cookies, and regular tools (bookmarks are gone, sharing often overridden, etc)

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This is why https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/sfs... exists and why the blog post advocates for using it.

That was a great update, but still not a true browser. No tabs, no bookmarks. Why should the website be restricted to one tab? Just open Safari and be done with it.

exactly

If you want a true browser there's always the option to move the current page from the in-app Safari View to the full browser.

In many cases I'd like to stay within the app. Those in-app Safari Webviews allows that. And if it is a website I'd like to browse in my usual, more permanent browsing evironment I always have th eoption to do so.

This two step approach is more useful to me than always opening links in the browser.

They're supposed to be restrictive as to not confuse the user. An in-app browser isn't there to give you a full browsing experience, it's there to do a quick web-only task that somehow cannot be done in the native app itself.

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