While WEI is thankfully cancelled, it’s not entirely cancelled… They’re planning on making it available still in WebViews with the intention that websites can check if a malicious Android app is trying to do a phishing scheme.

Seems like such a niche “security” feature… what are they really trying to accomplish here? Something seems fishy to me

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    I don’t know about graphene, but doesn’t some android roms allow to use custom ( more private Webview implementations) instead of default ?

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      Yes, they provide these Webviews, meaning they get a shitload of work probably, to remove that DRM BS. Until random apps (like all those Playstore apps) stop working on non-DRM webview… yay!

      Like, there are already services that just work with apps. If these apps dont work anymore, well…

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          if you root, you can install open webview module.

          currently using mulch webview and updating it in f-droid

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            Yeah I did that too. Mulch or Vanadium, I would recommend Vanadium. Bromite is dead. Cromite maybe, but really just use Vanadium its the most degoogled and secure one.

            But apart from that, the developer options make no sense if there is no way to actually install one without root.

            Also, openwebview replaces the installed one, doesnt it?

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            Firefox doesnt provide a webview for some reason.

            Its really shitty, because it could be a better standard for webapps on Linux too. But now we have electron, which is basically compatible with firefox as its web technology