TIL you need google chrome browser to login to chatGPT app on android. : privacy

[+] MagneticFusion@lemm.ee 81 points 2 years ago

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[-] DeriHunter@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

What alternative to you suggest? I really don't like Firefox, and chromium base browsers are way more comfortable to use. I currently use bromite which is awesome.

[-] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago

I'd say use Firefox for 3 months, there's some adjusting needed but it's really grown on me. Bromites last and final update was 8 months ago, so definitely find a replacement. Mull is a fantastic mobile browser, privacy focused and even has extentions. But Ladybird is a new browser in the works which isn't chromium or FF based, maybe give that a try whenever its released as well.

[-] mineapple@feddit.de 18 points 2 years ago

What excactly dont you like about FF? The ability to add addons (on nightly, you can even add any Desktop add-on you like), tab containers / cookie jars, or the flawless syncing to desktop, including passwords and bookmarks?

[-] equidamoid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

For me it's lack of convenient hotkeys and keyboard-based navigation. Used Vimperator on FF until they killed it. Now using qutebrowser, which uses qtwebengine, wbich uses outdated chromium. Sad story.

[-] Blazingflames6073@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Bromite has been abandoned

[-] eray@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

There is a new fork called cromite https://github.com/uazo/cromite

[-] pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No? Firefox on Android. I doubt the browser is your problem.

[-] Player2@sopuli.xyz 31 points 2 years ago

OP post looks to be about the official app, not website

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago

Yes, android app, it's even in the title.

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I'm confused, you're in the official app using Firefox?

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago

The screenshot is from the new chatGPT app for android. For login it requires a chrome browser, my grapheneOS android has mull and vanadium and both seems unsupported. But I think the problem here is webview.

[-] sci@feddit.nl 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

no, but the app redirects to a webview/browser for login

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Ahhh gotchya. Ok that's pretty shitty then.

[-] theamigan@lemmy.dynatron.me 33 points 2 years ago

If you think OpenAI themselves are any better than Google, I have a bridge to sell you.

[-] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 29 points 2 years ago

Don't see a reason to download the app when it works via Firefox mobile just fine

[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 26 points 2 years ago

This is why corpo AI sucks.

[-] Feddyteddy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 years ago

I just checked. Works on android Firefox for me on a samsung.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 years ago

Post title: "app". The official app requires Chrome to be installed for login.

You can use the web version on whatever.

[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

That's great

[-] nothingcorporate@lemmy.today 23 points 2 years ago

To anyone not interested in bending over backward for Chat GPT, https://www.futuretools.io keeps a pretty comprehensive, categorized list of AI tools, many of which use OpenAI's API, and many of them are customized to be be better tools for your specific use-case.

[-] Astarii_Tyler@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Are you sure thats the actual chatGPT? My login looks nothing like that.

[-] ijeff@lemdro.id 17 points 2 years ago

What browser are you using? I haven't faced this from Kiwi Browser or the Fennec F-Droid build of Firefox.

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I use Mull and since it's Graphene OS, there is also vanadium (chromium based). I try fennec, but I think it's because Graphene uses a lot to block other google services.

Edit: maybe because I have vanadium webview instead of android webview

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

This is c/privacy, so I must ask: do you know about Kiwi's shady practices?

In the past they redirected searches through their own servers, disabled adblockers on search result pages, and they were also caught contemplating about farming attention and directing users to partners.
I don't know if they are still doing these, to be clear.

If you didn't know this, and now searching for an other browser, the repo of these issues is an app that that is basically a browser repository, and it can update browsers and such, but more importantly it has short privacy notes on each supported browser.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago

It's likely requiring some "integrity API" (DRM check)

Source- I've seen similar things doing Android mobile dev

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I use the play services sandboxed from Graphene. Other DRM checking apps have no problems.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've been using it with Firefox on Android for months with no issues.

[-] ProperlyProperTea@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Same here

[-] thethirdobject@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

I downloaded the app as soon as it came out and I exclusively use Firefox. Are you perhaps logging using your Google account? I don't know if it could be that.

[-] biscuitsofdeath@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

I just signed out and signed back in. No issue for me.

[-] sixty@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

That's not my experience with the app:

[-] elouboub@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] habanhero@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

Is it because you have Chrome WebView disabled? So it's not finding a supported WebView to use?

[-] gunpachi@lemmings.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I am able to loginand use chatgpt in Firefox / Fennec / Mull just as fine as Chrome or Brave on Android.

[-] Echo5@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I think there is a front end app on Fdroid for ChatGPT, might be a viable workaround

[-] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Do you have a name? I am looking for a decent ui that can use the apis to drop my subscription

[-] t0fr@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

Is there a User Agent switcher on mobile?

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Idk, but would be nice, maybe.

Sent from my iPhone. :)

[-] Mandy@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

So you seem to be privacy aware, yet you wanna use these language models?

[-] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Ah well. Never used it and have no desire too. A lot of hype seemed to be astoturfing.

"Guys, I needed a poo, and I opened chatGPT. It is so good. I pood faster and more effectively than I ever have before. OMG!"

[-] singularity@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I had this issue with the Bose app and it took me a long time to figure out why adding any services would fail silently. Until I re-enabled Chrome, which suddenly fixed the issue.

[-] Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

I assume you need an app supporting custom tabs - Firefox also supports this for example.

[-] gigachad@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

As some people report the app is working on their phones without Chrome, is it possible you have installed an alternative System WebView on your phone, e.g. Bromite? Don't what some custom OS like Graphene use as default.

[-] skar3@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago

Same for me on Graphene os

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

It let me run it just fine and I use Firefox for Android. I used my Microsoft account as a login though so maybe that's different.

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