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I believe I have seen the same behaviour on Android for their apps.

• jeltz 3y ago
  Virtually all apps do this and some like Google Chat and Facebook Messenger do not even allow you to change browser.
• privacyking 3y ago
  That's different and an unfair comparison. Android will open the system browser (which will be chromium based in most instances). It can't just open the default browser because that might break certain functions of android apps if the non system default browser is broken
  • Regnore 3y ago
    Doesn't your comment apply equally to all platforms including Windows?
  • probably_wrong 3y ago
    That argument is surprisingly similar to the one that Microsoft argued back in their antitrust case [1]: that "the merging of Windows and IE was the result of innovation and competition" and "that the two were now the same product and inextricably linked". For those who were too young at the time, Microsoft lost the first instance of that trial and eventually reached a settlement. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C....
  • gbraad 3y ago
    just checked, and Bing opens their own webview. I believe when Edge is installed they opt to use this first before. you get the option to use the default, but this is not happening without interaction. note: not going to test this further... but regardless, why not use your default!
• microflash 3y ago
  That's not my experience. I use Firefox as default browser on Android and every app opens the webview in Firefox.
  • gbraad 3y ago
    also for Bing? curious to hear
• gbraad 3y ago
  Also added a message that this happens for mspaint on Windows: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36502731 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36502731