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Another thing that irritated me is app designers assuming I have email on my phone. I don't, I use it for work and will use my laptop when I want to check email. Too many apps send you a "magic link" in your email to login with no alternative.


I do have email on my phone and it still doesn't work: the app that triggered the email doesn't have a URL bar so I can't paste the link into there. The link is often also not a real link but the epitome of phishing. After resolving the tracking link to the real link, I need to somehow trick an app into sending a system broadcast event for the OS to notice that there is an app that wants to overwrite valid HTTP(S) URLs and handle them inside this app instead of in a browser

What ever happened to the protocol part of the URL to direct the data to the right software handler, I will probably never understand




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