Installing a different browser as your default on the system doesn't change the app's WebView implementation. Sure, they can bring their own (super common in CN), but user choice and privacy is undermined. The app *still gets to see everything you do in the WebView*.
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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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Do these default settings letting Google use all your browsing activity to improve its services apply to a CCT opened by a competitor's app, too?pic.twitter.com/hs7C4RCy4J
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Not if you set a different default browser.
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Finding the "open links externally" option in Facebook is an exercise in spelunking (Twitter is a little better)... Seems deliberately obscured. Then again, iOS won't let me set a default browser at allhttp://medium.com/@offbeatmammal/apple-are-a-design-company-so-why-is-ios-so-annoying-d40530dce8d9 …
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