Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings
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A dev recently discovered a browser built into the settings (for any google app that lets you edit settings). From there you can bypass parental controls or enterprise restrictions.

This is a pretty exciting “extra feature”, Google!

  • TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    This isn’t a secret browser, it’s Android System Webview - the system browser apps use when they aren’t a browser.

    What they’ve found here is a route to google.com from a webview page accessed from within the settings.

  • sibloure@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    This is kinda funny. During a family vacation as a kid, I went down to the hotel business center to use a computer kiosk but it required payment. I was bored so I was clicking around on the locked screen’s hotel logo and got to their company about page, and a bit more link clicking eventually got me out of the company’s website and to a google search page. I browsed for free for what seemed like an hour and did it again the next day before we went home.

    • variants_of_concern@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      boredom has made me the man I am today, its tough now a days to get bored and not pull out your phone and browse lemmy instead of doing your hobbies

  • MyMulligan@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Curious if someone in an abusive relationship could use this trick if their phone was being monitored. If the abuser was just monitoring them with the phone’s parental controls this would work but if there was an app probably not?