Anyone knows what android system webview & private compute services are?
Unfortunately the only way to escape this and retain a boot locked phone is GrapheneOS now. Used Pixels are cheap as fuck though.
Maybe one of most underrated features of GrapheneOS is its Vanadium browser acting as System WebView
I have been running a non degoogled (although heavily stripped down) Samsung Galaxy S23 without Private Compute for two years without problems. With that said, I am not using any proprietary apps from the Google ecosystem, so I cannot speak for those that do.
Webview is used so that apps can display web pages without opening a separate browser
System web view is the stripped down browser/HTML viewer that other apps use to display a web page. I think android lets you replace it but not sure
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You can change it in developer settings on Android 15, search for “WebView implementation”
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Oh ok, I changed it to Chrome Dev because the system webview couldn’t update with Aurora Store, so that’s why it works?
I think you need root access to replace it. Or maybe, you need to use something like adb to uninstall the chrome based one, and install something foss like cromite’s or forefox webview.
unless it’s been changed it should just be in developer options “webview implementation”
It has never worked for me.
I haven’t seen any responses on Private Compute, which is a client-side framework to do “work” that is too expensive to send to a google cloud service and back. Most common use is live captioning from audio with no caption stream.
Private Compute is heavily criticized by those who value freedom of software on Android because it is clearly doing other things, simply based on CPU use and activity, but the application is more or less a “black box”, we the public don’t know how it works.
