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		js2 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everyone knows all the apps on your phone Apple calls these Smart App Banners. Webkit cooperates with iOS to present them according to a meta tag in the page: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/promoting-a... You can get rid of them with the Unsmartifier extension. https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/q55753/unsmartifier_... The StopTheMadness extension can also remove them (among many other things... this extension is a must have for me): https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/support-ios.html

hnburnsy 10 months ago [–]

>Apple calls these Smart App Banners. Webkit cooperates with iOS to present them according to a meta tag in the page

JFC. Are they disabled if you ask for the desktop site?

uni_baconcat 10 months ago | [–]

I think it won’t. I tried open X.com desktop version on iPad, Safari still showed “open with X app”.

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