Comment by martinsuchan
4 years ago
I'm just curious, there are plenty of 3rd party full-featured browsers based on WKWebView that are injecting tons of JavaScript into all pages and basically doing the same as in-app browsers. So what's the difference?
The article actually mentions those:
> [...] they use JavaScript to offer some of their functionality, like a password manager.
Basically a 3rd-party browser needs to use JS to offer any features or real benefit over simply using Safari. But as a TikTok user you have no benefit when all links open inside the app with tons of custom JS injected that seems to be mainly for tracking you.