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No? Firefox on Android. I doubt the browser is your problem.
OP post looks to be about the official app, not website
Yes, android app, it's even in the title.
I'm confused, you're in the official app using Firefox?
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.
no, but the app redirects to a webview/browser for login
Ahhh gotchya. Ok that's pretty shitty then.
If you think OpenAI themselves are any better than Google, I have a bridge to sell you.
Don't see a reason to download the app when it works via Firefox mobile just fine
This is why corpo AI sucks.
I just checked. Works on android Firefox for me on a samsung.
Post title: "app". The official app requires Chrome to be installed for login.
You can use the web version on whatever.
That's great
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.
Are you sure thats the actual chatGPT? My login looks nothing like that.
What browser are you using? I haven't faced this from Kiwi Browser or the Fennec F-Droid build of Firefox.
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
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.
It's likely requiring some "integrity API" (DRM check)
Source- I've seen similar things doing Android mobile dev
I use the play services sandboxed from Graphene. Other DRM checking apps have no problems.
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.
I just signed out and signed back in. No issue for me.
I've been using it with Firefox on Android for months with no issues.
Same here
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That's not my experience with the app: 
in order to use this privacy sapping service, you need to install this privacy sapping app
Seems about right
Is there a User Agent switcher on mobile?
Idk, but would be nice, maybe.
Sent from my iPhone. :)
That's not going to be a problem in March 2024 when Apple will have to allow third party stores. Thank you EU and its Digital Markets Act <3
I have totally forgot about it. I don't have any Apple devices, but I'm interested in how that will turn out.
I am able to loginand use chatgpt in Firefox / Fennec / Mull just as fine as Chrome or Brave on Android.
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Is it because you have Chrome WebView disabled? So it's not finding a supported WebView to use?
I think there is a front end app on Fdroid for ChatGPT, might be a viable workaround
Do you have a name? I am looking for a decent ui that can use the apis to drop my subscription
I assume you need an app supporting custom tabs - Firefox also supports this for example.
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.
So you seem to be privacy aware, yet you wanna use these language models?
Same for me on Graphene os
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.
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.
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!"