A dev recently discovered a browser built into the settings (for any google app that lets you edit settings). From there you can bypass parental controls or enterprise restrictions.
This is a pretty exciting “extra feature”, Google!
A dev recently discovered a browser built into the settings (for any google app that lets you edit settings). From there you can bypass parental controls or enterprise restrictions.
This is a pretty exciting “extra feature”, Google!
This isn’t a secret browser, it’s Android System Webview - the system browser apps use when they aren’t a browser.
What they’ve found here is a route to google.com from a webview page accessed from within the settings.
100% but I believe these are typically locked down to one domain, and in this case its not.
At least thats how I understand it. So I guess the article is a little misleading in that sense, but the net effect is the same. You have carte blanche access to the web, via android system webview, thats acting as a de-facto out-of-band browser. So its misconfigured or not locked down, which means you can use it effectively as a “hidden” browser.
It’s even listed in the apps section in the settings app.