Competition cops in Europe and the United Kingdom have started paying attention to in-app browsers, a controversial mechanism for presenting web content within native apps.
Steiner observed: “WebViews can also be used for effectively conducting intended man-in-the-middle attacks, since the IAB [in-app browser] developer can arbitrarily inject JavaScript code and also intercept network traffic.”
Nonetheless, the possibility that in-app browsers might enable code injection and traffic interception for illegitimate purposes struck a nerve among those worried about privacy and security.
Bill Budington, senior staff technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told The Register that the EFF hasn’t taken a position on in-app browsers.
Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of browser maker Vivaldi, told The Register in a phone interview about an article written perhaps a decade ago by Tim Berners-Lee on closed systems.
If you look at how they’ve implemented their choice screen and how they’re dealing with allowing browsers that are not based on WebKit and how they introduced the Core Technology fee – they kind of make everyone else look pretty good.
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Competition cops in Europe and the United Kingdom have started paying attention to in-app browsers, a controversial mechanism for presenting web content within native apps.
Steiner observed: “WebViews can also be used for effectively conducting intended man-in-the-middle attacks, since the IAB [in-app browser] developer can arbitrarily inject JavaScript code and also intercept network traffic.”
Nonetheless, the possibility that in-app browsers might enable code injection and traffic interception for illegitimate purposes struck a nerve among those worried about privacy and security.
Bill Budington, senior staff technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told The Register that the EFF hasn’t taken a position on in-app browsers.
Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of browser maker Vivaldi, told The Register in a phone interview about an article written perhaps a decade ago by Tim Berners-Lee on closed systems.
If you look at how they’ve implemented their choice screen and how they’re dealing with allowing browsers that are not based on WebKit and how they introduced the Core Technology fee – they kind of make everyone else look pretty good.
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