Bug #731
closedPrivacy Browser proposes to open Telegram and WhatsApp contacts
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Description
Hello, I'm not sure if it can be considered a bug, but anyway.
After last update I noticed that PB shows up as a possible app when messaging/calling for Telegram and WA.
In the attached image you see the right icons for 'messaging' because I told "open always with".
I have a Samsung Galaxy A5 2017 with Android 8.
Thank you!
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Updated by Soren Stoutner 12 months ago
I'm not sure I fully understand what let to the attached screenshot. What app are you in, and what option did you select, that led to that screenshot?
Updated by Edoardo Secco 12 months ago
The situation is: no app opened at all, I just open my list of contacts on the phone, then I go on a contact and see as in the picture.
If I actually try to follow PB in opening, for example, a call on Telegram it shows:
"Impossible to load the web page at content://com.android.contacts/data/6864 since: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND"
I didn't make any setting for PB.
Updated by Soren Stoutner 12 months ago
Privacy Browser can read any data shared via a content URL with a VIEW intent. This lets it open text files, pictures, and other things. There is a bit of information about this at https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser-3-8/. You can see the intent filter in the Manifest beginning at line 130.
However, I am not able to replicate your behavior. For example, if I open the contacts on my phone (Google's default Contacts app), go to a contact, and select share from the menu, Privacy Browser is not listed as an option. This is most likely because Contacts is not using a VIEW intent, but a different intent that matches the behavior it is looking for. Are you perhaps using a custom contacts app? Could you post a video showing the behavior?
Updated by Soren Stoutner 12 months ago
If you can't post a video, a precise description of each step, with the version number of the contact app you are using, would be helpful.
Updated by Edoardo Secco 12 months ago
- File Screenshot_composed.jpg Screenshot_composed.jpg added
Yes, unfortunately a video would show telephone numbers, so I'm forced to avoid it. I tried to make an image instead. Please see it attached here :-)
The contacts app is: "Contacts" by Samsung, version 3.8.27.9
Updated by Soren Stoutner 12 months ago
- Status changed from New to In Progress
- Priority changed from 3.x to Next Release
Thanks for the detailed images. They explained to me what is going on, and I am able to replicate the problem on a Samsung tablet.
The solution is to limit Privacy Browser's content intent filters. Probably to something like the following:
<data android:mimeType="text/*" />
<data android:mimeType="image/*" />
<data android:mimeType="multipart/related" />
<data android:mimeType="mmessage/rfc822" />
I'll have to play around with them a little bit to see exactly what is needed.
Updated by Soren Stoutner 12 months ago
- Status changed from In Progress to Closed