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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Replying to @slightlylate
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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They get Google's vertical integrations in things like identity and payments and other preferential treatment on areas like search that are key to Google's business. Of course other services want users in their app to have experiences similarly matched to their own ecosystems.
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Or at the very least, don't want to just hand all that over when Google is a direct competitor.
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I take and agree with your points, but your argument would have greater moral force if more people meaningfully exercised a non-default (or even affirmatively chose Chrome) browser in Android.
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More importantly, it would look less like business suicide if the overwhelmingly popular default disabled integrations with Google the business when invoked as a custom tab, or offered plugin points for replacing any or all of the many privileged Google APIs.
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Have y'all brought any of that up with the CCT team? I'm not aware of bugs filed along those lines. Meanwhile, you're MITMimg user traffic and (if it's "business suicide" to let users browse the web without FB playing big brother), not articulating what you do with the data.
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More to the point: if y'all wanna be a browser, *make a browser*. Stop freeloading and breaking a huge fraction of the platform for developers.
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And *until* then, stop MITM-ing user traffic!!!!
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At an absolute, bottom-of-the barrel security minimum, CCT out when you detect an out of date WebView. For the love of every thing good, at *least* don't be complicit in that shit.
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As a final point, if y'all want to improve browser diversity on Android, you have surfaces (including the IAB) to advertise alternative browsers in. I'm sure Mozilla and Brave would love to chat with a privacy-serious FB.
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