[Android] Feature Request: Add an option to toggle "open links in their associated apps" function on/off

Description

Users often ask or comment that they’re unable to open website links in their associated apps (on device) when available. Most notably reported when opening/browsing YouTube and Twitter links.

Notes/considerations:

• This functionality is already present in Brave, but messaging/available information on this seems to (understandably) cause confusion about the way this feature works.
• As it is, opening links on sites with an app-associated URL only opens the external app if the link clicked is hosted by a 3rd party source.
• This means that if I visit reddit.com/ and click on a link to a YouTube video (assuming that Video playback in Brave option is disabled - otherwise it’ll open in Brave regardless), the I will be prompted to open the link in the app or in-browser (depending on the permissions settings). But if I visit YouTube.com in Brave and select a video to stream, the video will stream on the YouTube mobile website in-browser.

☝️ This method seems backwards to me - especially if you consider that we don’t really offer an explanation or documentation on the above facts. Users should not be required/forced to view content on the [relevant] mobile website - if a site has an associated app, it should be launched when a link is opened with a [relevant/app-associated] URL regardless of where that link is hosted .

In this situation I think Occam’s razor theory works best; if the URL points to a domain with an associated app, launch the app (if desired, obviously).

For example, visiting reddit.com/r/videos and clicking a YT link pointing to m.youtube.com/, youtube.com/, https://youtube.com/, youtube.be, etc should launch (or offer to, permissions dependent) the external Youtube app and play the content linked-to. Furthermore, navigating to Youtube.com in Brave and clicking a video to stream should also launch the external app and play the video content.

Example Solution

Kiwi web browser addresses this by providing a checkbox in their Accessibility settings. When checked, any link with an app-associated URL - whether hosted 3p or 1p - will launch the appropriate external app and display linked content:

[Brave-Matt]

+1 from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/c15t7q/plans_to_block_web_pages_from_prompting_you_to/erbpgox?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

[Brave-Matt]

+1 from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/c15t7q/plans_to_block_web_pages_from_prompting_you_to/erb2tvo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x