The Chrome team says they’re not going to pursue Web Integrity but…

it is piloting a new Android WebView Media Integrity API that’s “narrowly scoped, and only targets WebViews embedded in apps.”

They say its because the team “heard your feedback.” I’m sure that’s true, and I can wildly speculate that all the current anti-trust attention was a factor too.

  • dirtbiker509@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I’d like to believe that enough of us actually stopped using chrome and switched to Firefox the day they made that announcement that swayed them… But in reality I’m sure it was just the bad press and they’re going to try to find a different more sneaky way to do the same shit.

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      8 months ago

      Can you actually stop using chrome on android? Because every link I click it opens in their webview app which is chrome

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        8 months ago

        Yeah there is a setting and now when I click links it opens in Firefox. But if you use the Google search widget it still opens in chrome, which is to be expected I guess.

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          8 months ago

          That’s not only a problem for google search, most apps uses webview to handle web links. They can do like Voyager and have a option to open the default browser instead, but most of them don’t bother with that.

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    8 months ago

    K, I’m still not using Google search engine anymore. And once I find a replacement for any other Google services and devices I have, it’s out with those as well.

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      8 months ago

      I replaced gmail with protonmail and everything else with nextcloud. Couldn’t go back.

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        8 months ago

        After a lot of privacy switching I finally did try NextCloud, but I couldn’t get port forwarding to work on my Internet and gave up… For now

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          8 months ago

          You are probably behind a nat. I contacted my isp and they disabled it, since it works perfectly!

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            8 months ago

            What do you mean nat? For me there is an app with an option (apparently no other way) and it didn’t worj

            • xrtxn@lemmy.sdf.org
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              8 months ago

              Compare what your router reports as ip and compare what your public ip is. If its not the same then that means you are behind a nat(?)(or something else) and you can’t port forward now.