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brarcher / video-transcoder

Android app for video and audio transcoder, based on FFmpeg
GNU General Public License v3.0
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[Privacy] WebView #175

Closed duggalsu closed 3 years ago

duggalsu commented 3 years ago

Opt out of sending metrics to Google when using WebView. Add the following to the manifest -

<meta-data android:name="android.webkit.WebView.MetricsOptOut" android:value="true" />

https://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/webview-privacy

licaon-kter commented 3 years ago

/close this there's no INTERNET permission

duggalsu commented 3 years ago

Are you sure that it is the app that uploads the data and not the Android System WebView (which has full internet access) ?

licaon-kter commented 3 years ago

Where exactly is that used?

duggalsu commented 3 years ago

I'm not very sure but I believe the data collection refers to the App usage data uploaded to the Google account if enabled.

licaon-kter commented 3 years ago

Not what I've asked.

In this app, where is it used?

Can you show a network report (eg. Netguard) of webview connecting to the internet while using this app?

duggalsu commented 3 years ago

I will not be able to test this currently but wanted to be sure if this was an issue without the app having internet permissions. I will close this for now until I find out more or am able to test it.

brarcher commented 3 years ago

The webview is used to display an About dialog. It renders an HTML page that is included with the app. FYI