cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/mrlovenstein/p/1386847/apprehension
cross-posted from: https://crust.piefed.social/c/comicstrips@lemmy.world/p/58758/apprehension
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2026
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Don't even get me started on sites that automatically load the app when you go there on a phone.
Even better is when it just opens the homepage of the app instead of a direct link to what was given.
Based om my experience with android but surely any mainstream smartphone works a bit like this.
That isn't up to the website necessarily. Every app states what links it supports to your phone, that will open the appropriate app automatically. On android you can change this behaviour on a per link per app basis in
settings>apps>app-name>"open by default"Even if that is how it's working, it's up to the website to send that command. The app isn't looking at the URL you enter. That's why you can force the browser to go to the desktop version of the site to actually get it to load. The URL is the same. In any case, the company controls the app and the website. It's on them for how it works.
And even if you prevent it from loading the app, there's probably still not going to be a website to load.
It's annoying because it's the default functionality, not that there is no way to get a website to load.