It's not just HackerNews. I can remember when Facebook rolled out their "in-app browser", and a huge amount of content appeared on how to disable it.

That was partly due to websites being broken. You can still find some old discussions on Stack Overflow about features of their websites not working correctly in it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27000708/file-upload-con...

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Thoreandan 2 days ago | parent [-]

Checking in - it's not possible to disable from the app anymore, is it? The preference setting is still there, but ignored, afaict.

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agluszak a day ago | parent | next [-]

Correct, it's ignored. I find it strange that the EU isn't looking into it.

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OptionOfT 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm not sure the setting is even there in the FB app anymore.

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jefftk 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's right. Several times they sneakily reverted my preference, and I reset it. The most recent time I went to do that again and learned it's no longer possible.

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gizzlon 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You still have the fb app? You know the spied everything you browsed, right?

And if they didn't, it was not for lack of trying... What does it take for people to delete this shit?

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RulerOf a day ago | parent [-]

> You know the spied everything you browsed, right?

I remember that this "became news" some time ago, but it's always pretty obvious the moment it loads.

App presenting an SFSafariViewController? "Convenience" that's intended to keep users in the app.

App presenting a WKWebView? Assume it's loaded with spyware scripts.

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gizzlon a day ago | parent [-]

no no, not in the fb app, in the mobile browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115

TBF it's "only" sites with a meta pixel, and on Android. But in my book this does not matter, it shows their intentions

	▲	RulerOf a day ago \| parent [-]
		Ohhh yes I remember that one. Diabolically clever. I'm sure there's also no user-controlled firewall to stop it on Android either.