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This is a bug in the app, I don't see how it is Android's fault.
by bosswipe 6y ago
This is a bug in the app, I don't see how it is Android's fault.
- rhizome 6y agotl;dr: what bug, or even what kind of bug? "The app" does not provide the share intent panel functionality, the framework does, and even if there was some way in which an app could be thought to be to blame, with what permission would it be inserting its resources in a particular spot in the panel?
- bosswipe 6y agoThe app declared itself to be a web browser so the OS asked the user if they wanted to use this new browser.
- dleslie 6y agoThis is a Play Store curation failure _as well as_ a bug in the app. This sort of fault shouldn't have been allowed to pass.
- dimator 6y agoIt's funny how the chrome store has skewed so far the opposite direction (kicking out extensions that claim they need http://* http://*), but any Android app can claim they're a http:// http:// handler.
- dleslie 6y agoThe Play Store is a disasterous shit show; I don't trust apps on it at all.
- on_and_off 6y agowell it is a pretty transparent use case : the app declares it can respond to any http intent. The user has to agree to use that app to open http links. Sure Google could kick this dev butt and ask them to use a more focused intent filter but that's way less of an issue than an extension siphoning all your web browsing.