I appreciated how the reddit app I used (relay) kept everything internal. I don’t want all the links I open on this app opening in my browser and plugging up my history. I doubly appreciated how it would open YouTube links in an internal video player that wasn’t linked to my YouTube account in any way. This is a must have for me to prevent my YouTube “algorithm” from getting any ideas. For example, I watch a video about “X” and now my whole feed is suggesting I watch more videos about whatever “X” was.

  • @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    31 year ago

    Custom Tab is when links open in Firefox/Chrome, but still inside the app. Linking externally means that you leave the Jerboa app entirely and open the link in your standard browser.

    • @Jode@midwest.socialOP
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      31 year ago

      Oh right so that is the current behavior. This still ends up with your browser history picking up everything that you go to in the app. I don’t like this.

      • @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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        11 year ago

        Understandable, to each their own.

        I personally would not like having links not open in Firefox, since I would lose the large amount of improvements I get from Firefox extensions. I also launch everything by default in private browsing, so the history issue is moot for me.