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Re:Reddit for iOS and Android by levemi on Thursday April 07, 2016 @08:00PM (#11451663)
> I'm not sure if that is Imgur intentionally trying to prevent people from not seeing their "Download our app" banners everywhere, or a bug in AB, but it is very annoying.

It's a problem with Alien Blue, not imgur. It just needs to enable cookies across webviews.

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Re:Reddit for iOS and Android by shostack on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:43AM (#11452966)
Is this new then? It only started recently.
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Re:Reddit for iOS and Android by nezza-_- on Friday April 08, 2016 @05:17AM (#11453503)
> It just needs to enable cookies across webviews.

'just' enable something that has an impact on user privacy?

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Re:Reddit for iOS and Android by dave2000 on Friday April 08, 2016 @06:14AM (#11453674)
They'll know you visited the site before? Why would I want to lose functionality to mitigate against that?
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Re:Reddit for iOS and Android by bennyg on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:06PM (#11456176)
Seems like a perfectly good thing to have as an app-wide setting tbh.
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