WebViews for non-app content are a choice that apps make. Other, better, more respectful and secure choices are available to them. Apps that insist on not taking you out to your browser when you tap on links, but also do not take advantage of CCT/SafariViewController are *bad*.
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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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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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Looks like a _lot_:http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/worldwide …
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No, I mean specifically Android telemetry, what % choose a different default browser which would be launched by a CCT invocation?
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Don't have that data offhand (and not sure I can share directly), but any default browser that supports CCT would get invoked when apps call out to it. That's at least FF, Opera, and Samsung Internet. Probably also Brave.
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Can Android app intents still claim arbitrary URLs, with the OS giving you a choice for overlapping claims? The abuse of protocol on iOS really undermined this http://epeus.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-apples-ios-fragmentation-problems.html#missing%20links …
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Somewhat separate issue, but yes, intent filters are A Thing:https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/deep-linking#adding-filters …
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