>> Does just not entering any keyboard input in the in app browser mitigate this?
yes but i doubt the hundreds of millions of users, many of which are children, know this
yes but i doubt the hundreds of millions of users, many of which are children, know this
Non-technical people don't have a concept of "in app browser sandboxing". In their minds they clicked on an ad, they're still inside TikTok, TikTok's UI is showing, TikTok will show prompts based on the content shown... they probably assume TikTok has access to that page?
Honestly I'm more annoyed that Apple allows big apps to use the loophole that is the legacy webview than I am that TikTok uses that webview to do the exact single thing it's good for... having full control over the web content you're showing in app.
Because I doubt it is. People click links in chats and in their feeds way more than they click ads
The only way for a non-ad link to be opened from comments is to copy it and paste it in your native browser.
Business accounts get a special link field that's part of their bio, so again, deeply embedded in TikTok... and those behave exactly like the ads do. TikTok has a permanent "Flag" UI on top of the site, they replace every page load with a TikTok spinner
As expected half the people outraged don't even know what they're outraged about.
In that guy's other comment he was talking about Meta/Facebook too which is what I'm most familiar with and was primarily referring to about people clicking on links.
Even with TikTok I bet people click on profile links more than ads
Also that's not ironic, maybe you are thinking of another word
And "you bet" wrong, since the profile links are only enabled for business accounts.
But you're right about one thing: it was not at all ironic you'd deflect. It's exactly what I'd expect after someone misses what a thread about and makes assumptions about a subject they don't know.
That was some people call sarcasm.
You were the one who brought up Facebook first in your other comment...