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Chrome on linux does the same sadly... prompts to be the default browser, never remembers the "no" option, and if you misclick the small 'x', it sets itself as the default again.

People have actually written apparmour configs to prevent that: https://sergei.nz/stop-google-chrome-from-hijacking-mimes/

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Android will also use chrome over the default Firefox on a lot of random apps.

Frequently this is due to those apps launching Chrome instead of "something to handle this URL".

But yes, it's pervasive, and I would love a way to intercept it. I don't care what they want, it's my phone.

>But yes, it's pervasive, and I would love a way to intercept it. I don't care what they want, it's my phone.

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.chrome

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