> I am so fucking sick of websites with tiny type disabling my ability to zoom!

Me too! I made a bookmarklet[1] that restores your ability to zoom on sites that explicitly disable it.

[1] https://gist.github.com/jasonbarry/6047338

In Chrome for Android, just tick Settings > Accessibility > Force enable zoom

Disabling the viewport on websites that need zoom is really bad design, but if you have a website that is optimized or at least scales well to mobile sizes then disabling zoom is better. If the user doesn't have a reason to zoom on to content then accidentally zooming makes for a worse experience.

Although I agree that there should be an option to disable the disabling of viewport zooming; I think it makes for a better UX for most mobile website viewers.

> then disabling zoom is better

When the page loads no zooming happens; how about we let me decide whether or not I feel like zooming it or not?

If I accidentally zoom I know how to not-accidentally un-zoom.

All zoom-disabling is user hostile.

So, I think I agree with this but I have a legit question: If this is such the case, why is there almost no zooming functionality in native apps?

One of my favorite iOS Chrome features is "request desktop version"