Chrome’s Data Disaster: Browser update wipes out Android app data

Google changed where Chrome stores data. Chrome handles data for HTML apps. Uh oh.

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as a dev, if your app is "stable" you probably would have zero idea using the system webview would have such impacts, so its easy to not be subscribed to googles nightly changes in opaque backend components. They changing chrome? ok I dont use it, i just use the android system webview...