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> This means: If you’re logged into a website in your phone’s browser, but you click a link to that site from a native app’s webview, your logged-in state will not be honored. You’ll need to log in all over again.

> At best, this is irritating. At worst, it gives people the false impression that the website is broken or logged them out.

No, at worst, it uses the original/authentic website as phishing bait, and convinces the user to type a login and password for site A (the framed site) into application B (which shouldn't have access to it).



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