Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
  • anguo@lemmy.ca
    151·
    1 year ago

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

    • qupada@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • anguo@lemmy.ca
        11·
        1 year ago

        A lot of those apps allow you to open links in an external browser instead, but yes, that is a problem

      • Blxter@lemmy.zipEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        Maybe I’m dumb but I have had no issues using Firefox on android.

        • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Other poster was saying apps that are built around web content use Chrome’s webviewer component, and that tons of apps these days are react native, or whatever that Apache foundation tool is for deploying web apps as native apps.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Also Firefox Focus, which forgets your browsing history when you close it or hit the trashcan button.

    • codapine@lemm.ee
      4·
      1 year ago

      You can’t uninstall Chrome most likely, but maybe your stock/rom will allow you to “disable” it.