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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?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (15 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (12 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Really? Why? It's the browsing history of your phone, who is going to look at it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

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