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This mentality of Google = bad and FOSS = good and secure is harmful.
nah, there are legitimate concerns around chrome's privacy stuff, a lot of people would be fine if they could run cromite or one of the privacy centric forks. the main issue is that vendors for some reason lock down webview to the google play store provider. I presume this is due to some false security notion around a bad webview being installed. but that would be a lot of steps so...