Hey all, new here and learning to find my way around Lemmy. I noticed that everything I do in Jerboa is showing up in my Chrome history. How do I make that stop?

  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Jerboa likely uses webviews to display web content. WebViews on Android are shown by chrome by default. If you install Firefox you might be able to choose it to display webviews but it will still end up in history there. I don’t think you can make it stop, maybe the dev can.

    • BarelyAdulting
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      1 year ago

      Woah, that might explain why it has been throwing so many errors for me - I’m using Brave as my default web browser.

    • K1LOS@lemmy.oneOP
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      1 year ago

      Hmm. I do have Firefox installed but I don’t see any way to move the history there (and frankly I don’t want that either). That is disappointing, may be a deal breaker for Lemmy for me.

        • K1LOS@lemmy.oneOP
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          1 year ago

          Presumably nobody, but I don’t want to keep a record of it regardless. Only option I see to accomplish that would be to login manually from an incognito browser every time, and that sounds like a hassle.

          • animist@lemmy.one
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            1 year ago

            I mean nearly all apps are just crappy browsers with one thing overlaid anyway

          • rigo@lemmy.one
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            1 year ago

            I mean it’s fine to feel this way, but it’s an app in alpha. It doesn’t have the resources to have an in-app browser. It’s not like they are doing something shady.

            • K1LOS@lemmy.oneOP
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              1 year ago

              I never said they were doing anything shady, and I agree that they aren’t. That just isn’t something I want and seems I can’t reasonably avoid.

              • rigo@lemmy.one
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                1 year ago

                Yeah that’s my bad. I meant to respond to the poster below you who was acting like it was a breach of ethics or something.

      • ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat
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        1 year ago

        If you set Firefox as your default browser app, it will probably open the WebViews in Firefox instead. It’s still going to show the history. You are essentially clicking on links and viewing them in a browser, it’s no different than you navigating to the pages yourself. Jerboa itself does not have a browser, so it is not possible to view things “in” the app. At most, you get an embedded WebView that only looks like it’s in the app.

      • BarelyAdulting
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I agree that sounds pretty scummy, especially since it isn’t spelled out anywhere. In the short term, I imagine you could disable the history through Chrome, or whatever you’re using as your default browser. I have been using the web version for now, since Jerboa still needs a ton of work. I just set up a direct link to my instance on my Android phone screen.

        • K1LOS@lemmy.oneOP
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          1 year ago

          Unfortunate. Seems like it’d be a hassle to use Lemmy the way I want, or I’d have to change how I use my browser.

        • ATGM 🚀@beehaw.org
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          1 year ago

          It’s probably a sideeffect of using the default webview rather than an intentional decision.

        • K1LOS@lemmy.oneOP
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          1 year ago

          True, but my alternative option would be browsing Lemmy in my browser and I have the same end result.