...for context, that's almost half the number of people with iPhones. The scale of Android is mind-boggling. But even with auto-updating WebView handling (some of) the security aspects, the privacy issue remains. WebViews aren't browsers.
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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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I think you and I are not far apart in how we'd like this to work in an ideal world, but you know that you are grossly oversimplifying the choices and forces at work here. Google Chrome is not a value-neutral, idealized privacy wonderland.
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*Google* gets trusted with, can see, and in many cases monetizes, the same data you are so concerned with in-app browsers having access to. The user is default logged in to Google's array of services and sites, and matched for Google's ads and analytics...
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