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Disable sending metrics to Google when using Android System WebView#5337

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Disable sending metrics to Google when using Android System WebView#5337
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  • Bugfix (user facing)
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  • Meta improvement to the project (dev facing)

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This PR disable sending metrics to Google when using Android System WebView in NewPipe by adding <meta-data android:name="android.webkit.WebView.MetricsOptOut" android:value="true" /> in the manifest of the app, inside the <application> tag.

Fixes the following issue(s)

Fixes #5335

APK testing

app.zip (from CI)

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@TobiGr TobiGr added the privacy & data protection Issues regarding either NewPipe, Team NewPipe services or external services NewPipe uses label Jan 2, 2021
@TobiGr TobiGr merged commit 68175c1 into TeamNewPipe:dev Jan 2, 2021
@AudricV AudricV deleted the disable-webview-metrics branch January 2, 2021 17:16
This was referenced Jan 18, 2021
ShareASmile added a commit to ShareASmile/JustPipe that referenced this pull request Jun 14, 2024
…s of 15-01-2024 into pre-unified-legacy

This is a fork of TeamNewPipe/NewPipe-legacy that I have been patching for a few months now. There is no commit history as this has been a personal project up until today.

Pulled in a major chunk of related commits for NewPipe Preunified from upstream TeamNewPipe/NewPipe repository:
1. Update NewPipe extractor to fetch likes count Fix TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#10624
2. Access Background Player Queue from Main menu by HybridAU
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#8419
3. Added Bandcamp Music Support Into NewPipeLegacy, Improve Bandcamp intent filters
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#3741
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#6373
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#6456
4. Disable sending metrics to Google when using Android System WebView
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#5337
5. Add basic resize functionality
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#3948
6. [media.ccc.de] Add recent & live stream kiosk
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#5251
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#5286
[media.ccc.de] Fix service color
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#5258
7. Ability to see Pinned Comment added by dkramer95
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#7577
8. Clicking on Title In Background Player Should Open Video Details
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#3808 by https://github.com/budde25
9. Added Swipe to Refresh for Channels New Videos in Subscription Feed
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#4893
10. [peertube] implement sepia search
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#5257
11. Allow installation on external storage by triallax in
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#6037
12. Change UA to privacy.resistFingerprinting
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#5649 by FireMasterK
13. Add formatting removal on paste for search TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#5912 by imericxu
14. Remember Last Selected Media Type For Downloads
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#4038 by vmazoyer
15. Improve search suggestion experience when remote ones can't be fetched
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#4029 by StyPox
16. Fix Download Button Not Visible After Playing Live Stream, Fix video detail controls visibility set inconsistently
Add this commit by StyPox
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe@dbb86d2 from
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#4362
17. [Background Player] Fix very small thumbnails in Video Detail Page by TobiGR in
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#5818
18. Add Always Expand Description In Appearance Settings
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#2998 by B0pol
(Related) entries from search history Increased from 25 to 80 and Search Suggestions Entries from 3 to 60 commit copied from
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#2666 thanks to ergor
20. Fixes snackbar error on disabled likes count
Fixes TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#7405 by TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#753
21. Fixed player controls not hiding after replay & Bluetooth headset button by Alexander--
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#3547
22. update user agent in Downloader to firefox latest ESR 115 by Nickoriginal
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#8269
23. Changed Dark Theme Colors To Darker Variant by sauravrao637
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#6244
24. Support for PeerTube Short Links
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#7353
25. Handle URLs for YouTube Shorts
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#7181
26. Fix playback speed not being updated in Background Player & Fix TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#8058
Fixed Combinedly by TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#6421 by Tobius
and by seanzzy in
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#8244
27. Added comments disabled functionallity by litetex in
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#6483
28. [media.ccc.de] Fix service color
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#5258
29. Ignore ContentNotSupportedException caused by Bandcamp fan pages
TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor#1033
30. Crash when rotating device on unsupported channels
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#6696
31. Correct Gigaget's license from GPLv2 to GPLv3
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#4892
32. Add basic resize functionality [Samsung Dex Now Supported]
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#3948
33. [Security] Update ktlint to 0.40.0
34. Fix security vulnerability update checkstyle / guava
35. Update ExoPlayer from 2.11.6 to 2.11.8
36. Update checkstyle, OkHttp, use Kotlin JDK8 by TacoTheDank added this commit
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe@79e2bb3
from TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#3909
37. Use user agent of DownloaderImpl also in ReCapthaActivity
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#5215
38. Fix ACRA bug reports not containing stack trace, Do not init ACRA if inside its own process
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#3982
39. Remove deprecated calls to set Sender class to ACRA
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#3982
40.Use SubtitlesStream#getUrl instead of getURL
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#4120
41. Remove pbj=1 parameter from YouYube urls in recaptcha activity
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#5208
42. Set notification style in Android 11 to MediaStyle Thanks to XiangRongLin for Limted Support for preunified refer to this commit
XiangRongLin@aa55a09
43. Click on title in background player opens video details
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#3808
44. Add 2K and 4K to the options list for default resolution
 TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#2968
45. Fix crash when opening video in local playlist tab
Fixes TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#3887
by TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#3892 by wb9688
46.  Handle ContentNotSupportedException
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#3300
47. [YouTube] Improve download speed by Theta-dev
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#9948
48. Disable commenter image when disabling thumbnails loading by 4D17Y4
Fixes TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#4205
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#4350
49. Adapt opacity of popup close button to allow touches in other apps on Android >=11
Fixes TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#6770
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#8279
50. Better error messages for SoundCloud and YouTube unavailable contents
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#5385
51. Mitigating long buffering on initial video playback by using custom progress-load-interval in exoplayer,
Use 16 KiB as the default progressive load interval by karyogamy
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#7919
52. Support for opening YouTube Live URLs
TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#9725

Co-Authored-By: Tobi <17365767+tobigr@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Stypox <stypox@pm.me>
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Co-Authored-By: Ethan Budd <budde25@protonmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: triallax <triallax@tutanota.com>
Co-Authored-By: Kavin <20838718+firemasterk@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Eric Xu <xeric.2002@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Vincent Mazoyer <17800856+vmazoyer@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-Authored-By: Nickoriginal <85299944+nickoriginal@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-Authored-By: XiangRongLin <41164160+xiangronglin@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-Authored-By: Okan25 <92695587+okan25@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Michael Van Delft <1610265+hybridau@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Taco <32376686+tacothedank@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: ThetaDev <thetadev@magenta.de>
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