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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

There is Firefox for Android. You're still on Android, but you can have some control left.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately Firefox doesn't have a replacement for the "Android System WebView" component, so any app that embeds a browser component (and oh boy is that a lot of them) will still be using Chrome.

    There's a relevant ticket here: https://github.com/mozilla/geckoview/issues/167

    It should be possible to have a shim that allows Mozilla's "GeckoView" component to implement the API, but - per that ticket, at least - most Android ROMs won't allow alternatives to the Google one.

    The Firefox browser is genuinely great, but it's so far from possible to replace Chrome with it everywhere a browser is used.

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