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As someone pointed out already, Twitter does a good job with this. Reddit does a fine enough job, too.

However, tiktok doesn't allow users to break out of their in-app browser. This is especially frustrating when you wish to follow an artist on Spotify WITHOUT signing into Spotify in the tiktok app.

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The tiktok thing is so annoying. It's not even possible to get the URL of the page you're viewing so you can open it in another app, and you can't long press any links to copy them either (neither in the in-app browser or in a user's bio). It makes it so frustrating when someone has social media links in their bio, because there's literally no way to open them in a different app short of manually typing out the URL. I understand why they do it (data collection/tracking), but it's a horrible user experience.

Ironically people handle this with: link to instagram (because you can break out of browser):

link to insta => link tree in insta => get to link you like => user can click safari button…

Yeah, and that frustrates the hell out of me, too, because I don't have Instagram and it varies (based on Zuck's mood, I guess) whether they will even allow me to view someone's profile without an account.

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