[myprotegeai]

Somewhat related, I have a short rant about embedded browsers killing the web.

Embedded browsers make it impossible (literally in some cases, figuratively in others) to use social OAuth. If you click a link on Instagram, which by default opens in Instagram's browser, and that link has "Sign in with Google", it simply will not work, because Google blocks "insecure browsers", which Instagram is one. There are even issues getting "Sign in with Facebook" to work, and Meta owns Instagram and Facebook! The Facebook embedded browser suffers from similar issues.

[pphysch]

Embedded browsers have many great use cases, but navigating to arbitrary links is not one of them.

It's virtually never useful to me when I click on a link in Slack or whatever, then respond to a text message, and go back to my browser expecting to find my page there, and it's nowhere because Slack has gobbled it up in its own browser.

Fortunately I just checked and there's a way to disable the embedded browser in Slack.