That would make reddit, bluesky, slack etc a miserable experience where you have to switch apps all the time. There’s an option to force it pop out to a browser, go set it. I bet most people don’t want to switch back and forth.

The point of the article is if you use the more modern private API, then it does sandbox the experience and pulls in user privacy preferences while still being an in app browser. There are just older APIs that respect your privacy less.

Then make app switching better, replace the overlong animation with a snappy transition and make returning to the original app seamless. They're loading these phones up with RAM, they should be able to support true multitasking. The UX should be as natural as alt-tabbing between apps on desktop, and could be made even more fluid with proper design. But that's clearly not a priority.

PWAs have a better experience opening external links then an in-app browser.

reddit removed the ability to open links in an external browser by default on Android. You have to manually click the 3 dot menu and then Open In Firefox or similar to get into the full browser.

This is an iOS-specific issue, right?

There in a Safari Controller that’s isolated from the app, but it’s presented within the app. If Apple can just mandate any web browsing activity must go through Safari Controller, it would stop all this nonsense from Facebook.