Comment by BoorishBears

People really want to force outrage on this, but after enough interaction with the ad (scrolling, clicking, typing) TikTok asks about your experience with the ad.

TikTok is not pretending to have opened your system browser, it goes very far in doing the opposite:

- Hides the normal browser UI

- Replaces every page load with a TikTok spinner

- Permanently places a TikTok header bar over the screen with a report content button tied to TikTok

Combine that with the fact so many people seem to not realize... the only links you can open with the browser are links sold with analytics (ie you can't post arbitrary links as a user commenting) and the outrage just doesn't add up.

A completely non-technical user going through that flow would expect that they're still in TikTok and are using TikTok not their browser