I recently discovered a secret browser located inside the "Manage my account" popup that Android has in various apps (quite important apps, such as Settings…

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Matan-h discovered a secret browser located inside the ‘Manage my account’ popup that Android has in various apps. The browser even bypasses parental control. It has no history and it auto logs out of all Google accounts that were logged-in.

Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings

<p>Chrome is worst than a virus, once installed you won’t get rid of it.
I saw one of best engineeres and hackers teying for a week. They never saw anything like it, first thing they give up on in their whole life.
After reinstalling OS I never install this sh*t.</p>


<p>hummm “no address bar”. Looks to me that this is simply a web view that was poorly used. Web views are used by a lot, and I mean A LOT, of apps to show contents of pages like privacy policy and terms of use</p>
