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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.

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[–] dirtbiker509@lemm.ee 119 points 2 years ago (26 children)

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.

[–] calavera@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (10 children)

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

[–] dirtbiker509@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] calavera@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years 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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