There’s massive browser war coming around user privacy, tracking, and targeted ads (Google, FB, adtech vs Apple, Mozilla, Brave and hopefully Microsoft).
It’s going to last a few years and it’s going to get really ugly. 
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Replying to @marionpdaly @marcosc
Prediction: the folks who accept the (weighty) responsibility of being "real browsers" are going to join hands and rail against the knock-off-web that we've enabled inadvertently. WebView and "IABs" are a pox on users and developers.
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Replying to @ehsanakhgari @marcosc
CCT is one good answer: https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/customtabs … iOS is pretty far gone, although thankfully a smallish fraction of the market.
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Replying to @ehsanakhgari @marcosc
WebViews are the problem, and that's the fight. We need to figure out (collectively) how to get apps to stop using them for third-party content (what they do to their own web developers or in-app ad inventory is on them).
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Replying to @ehsanakhgari @marcosc
Vanilla browsers improving will have no impact on a *huge* fraction of browsing of we don't get more of it over to CCT. I understand that Mozilla isn't super focused on mobile, so this perhaps isn't front-and-center, but the data I see makes me weight this issue heavily.
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Glad to hear that! As to WebView usage, y'all can certainly make noise about major apps that undermine user choice by not using CCT; advocacy is something you do in many other domains.
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