Modern WebView on Android is powered by an auto-updating Chrome. But that still leaves ~8% of devices without up-to-date WebView runtimes:https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/ …
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Cannot stress this enough: the only reason this happens is because apps are jealous of your time. They build these upside-down "browsers" because they don't want you to go to your real default browser. They want to keep you in-app. They *worked* to break this.
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The default behavior for navigation intents is to launch your default browser. Many apps felt this wasn't in their interest, so they put your privacy and security at risk. Demanding they adopt CCT is the *least* we can ask.
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So when companies start taking about taking privacy seriously but still default hundreds of millions of users to this dog's breakfast of a broken, privacy violating web experience, don't believe a word of it.
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