Back in July, Google's work on a Web Integrity API emerged and many equated it to DRM. The company announced today it's not proceeding...

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.

  • CalaveraEnglish
    3•8 months ago

    No, I’m not talking about default browser but the WebView app. For example I’m using Voyager for Lemmy, and if I click on this post’s link it will open the website in the WebView, then I can click to Open with firefox.

    But WebView itself is still chrome as you can see

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      5•8 months ago

      You must be on stock android. I think you can still swap out the webview component but I forgot how

    • @aehardingEnglish
      4•8 months ago

      You can customize Voyager to open links in default browser not in-app: Settings -> General -> Open Links in

        • @aehardingEnglish
          1•8 months ago

          It’s only available if you are using the native app. The PWA doesn’t have that option due to web limitations unfortunately.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•8 months ago

      Ohhhh I see. Yeah, I think Sync uses Chrome too. Sync has an option to always open links in external web browser, so that’s how I got around that.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•8 months ago

      It’s even crazier than that. On some versions of Android there is no webview, only chrome! I think that was around Android 8 or so they dropped webview then re-added webview in the next version