I am unable to play YouTube videos from the links I get on my Facebook Messenger app. Here's what happens: 1. A friend of mine posts a video link to me (YouTube link) as a message on Facebook. 2. I receive it on my Android mobile in the Facebook Messenger app. 3. I click on it and it shows a dialog box (you can call that a pop-up) which asks me to choose an app to open the video with. Now earlier, there used to be video player apps on my mobile along with the internet browsers installed on my mobile that used to come up there. So I would select an internet browser, and it, in turn, would re-direct me to the YouTube app itself. However, now, I am only getting video players in that dialog box as an option to open the YouTube video, but of course, if I select them, they are not able to stream the video. Has anyone found a way around this problem? It is really bothersome.

Background 1) Using a file explorer I can select an HTML file and it will start the default browser and then do its thing. 2) The HTML file is on an inserted SDCARD 3) In the browser, the HTML file takes some options and displays text relevant to those options The reverse does not work (The Problem): 1) In a browser I enter the path for the HTML file shown by the file explorer 2) An example: the file explorer shows the path as **/storage/####-####/folder/filename.html** 3) In the browser I enter **file://** then the path above (####-#### is 8 numbers in two sets of 4) 4) This generates the response: "Access to the file was denied: it is not readable. may have been removed, moved or file permissions may be preventing access." There is no user code I wish to enter the file URL within the browser so it can be bookmarked for easy future access

I have a tg:// URL like tg://login?token=BTGjK95sf6QLckQBAZPtH_gSLOcpQoasQLCea18O9A that I want to open in the Android Telegram app. If I paste it into Chrome address bar then it searches for the URL, rather than redirecting to the app like on a PC. How do I open this URL?

Many questions regarding QR are from years ago. My question is, will a single QR handle 2 functions. What I'm trying to achieve is. A QR which allows user to connect to my Wi-Fi (Hotspot) AND open a desired website. NOT A CAPTIVE PORTAL.

When you click a link in many apps, the URL already comes with all sorts of info about your device, and since I'm a little too conscious about that, I would like to inspect each URL before Firefox sends that request for god knows where, but click super fast in the X button seems too crude (and probably ineffective) for me. Is there something in about:config or somewhere else for that?

I use the calendar application that's built in macOS. Events created there have a URL field. How do I access that field from an Android phone? --- A sample event with an URL created on macOS, exported from Google Calendar: BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210323 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210324 RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=2 DTSTAMP:20240410T225451Z UID:179C1961-1EA6-439E-BD91-774CDEFB6CE9 URL:https://android.stackexchange.com/posts/256767/edit CREATED:20210309T184613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240402T191532Z SEQUENCE:1 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:How to access the URL field used by the MacOS Calendar on Android? TRANSP:TRANSPARENT END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR

**I am looking for a way to find out the address of a website that is being opened in the integrated (proprietary) browser of the TikTok application.** I am trying to stop some fraudulent visits to our website through Google ads. We have reported these videos for a month on TikTok, but they are still active. We have contacted Google Ads customer support, and they say it's not their responsibility. Google hides the HTTP_REFERRER in the clicks that come through Google Ads, and our server only receives a client ID "gclid" and Google as the referrer. **The modus operandi is as follows:** The attacker runs an ad campaign on TikTok with videos offering fake jobs with very high salaries, no experience required, and excellent conditions (impossible ones, to be clear). Just to attract visits. At the end of the video, the ad says "swipe left" ... there, a page opens containing only links to Google Ads' paid ads. Because this page opens in TikTok's browser, no information about the website (the page) being displayed can be found. **This is causing a triple harm:** 1. Fraudulent clicks that we paid for. 2. Annoyance from calls (60-100/every day) regarding the fake job offers. 3. It seems the attacker is paid by Google Adsense when someone clicks from their page. **Any solution ideas will be welcomed. Thank you.**

On a desktop, I always hover and look at a link before clicking it. Is there a way I can get Brave on Android to show me the link contents first?

Downloaded Sophos Intercept X today cause my Chrome browser kept opening to https://web.bwanet.ca all of a sudden + all my open tabs were gone. Is it due to Sophos? If so, is there a specific feature in the Sophos app that can stop future hijacks?

This app tries to handle logins through the browser with a custom "protocol"/scheme in the URI, i.e. instead of https://..., it tries to open dbnavigator://idm_auth/login?..., but the browser (Google Chrome) says "Web page not available", "net::UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME". How do I help the app explain to the browser how to access that address?

I'd like to see what URL I'm going to visit **before** opening it in my browser. What setting or app allows me to do that? If there's no such setting, an app that adds an entry to the following box would also be OK. PS. Some links trigger . Long URLs are truncated, so this solution is sub-optimal.

I have a Samsung mobile. I am using Google Chrome on Android. I have opened more than 20 tabs in past 20 days. Now, I want to copy and store all the URLs (website links) of all the opened tabs in a text format in mobile (memo) or email all the URLs combined before closing all the tabs. How can I do it on mobile?

I have a Redmi Note 8 Pro which can read NFC tags, and I wrote an NFC tag with a custom URI for an app (Obsidian). The custom URI makes the app to open and write something inside it. The "problem" I have is that when I read the NFC tag, a panel pops up and I have to manually click it in order to "load" the URI, it's not done automatically by just approaching the NFC tag with the phone. Is it possible to somehow automatically load the URI by approaching the phone to the NFC tag? Or is this a security measure of some kind to prevent loading malicious URIs?

I am looking for a solution to block all URLs except a few which are required for my device to function. I have all the root permissions required to make changes. Is there any way we can block all URLs except a list of URLs (approx. 10 URLs) from a common place in android Web-view Framework so that all the Native applications can access the common code and access set of Allowed and Blocked URLs

I want to whitelist some URLs been used by my device and native apps for sync and updates. Other than these few URLs, I wish to block all other URLs being accessed by any chat window and browser. I have my device rooted, and have been looking for a common solution which can be accessed by all native applications and browsers. I have found a solution to override the API "shouldOverrideUrlLoading" in the class WebView Client, but if there are any applications which do not call this WebViewclient and directly calls native APIs (system/netd). I am quite new to the WebView thing, do let me know if anyone has any solutions or suggestions.

Is there any way to force my phone (pixel, Android 8.0) to open url links to the Washington Post with the Washington Post app? This kind of desired behavior works automatically with other apps/urls for me like the New York Times and Google Maps, but for some reason not with the Washington Post.

Scenario: I'm talking in-person with someone and during the course of conversation I think of a website whose URL I know from memory, and I want them to type the URL into their smartphone and access the website directly without performing a web search (just like you could do on a traditional computer web browser in the address bar). To be clear: I don't want it to do "search as you type", I don't want it to create suggestions based on partial matches, and I don't want it to do any kind of search that delivers search results. I don't want the entered string to be sent to a search engine to do any processing of any kind. I just want it to open a connection to the indicated website (i.e., go directly to DNS lookup followed by HTTP or HTTPS connection to the entered URL). Also, in this scenario, I have no way to generate a QR code for them (I don't own a smartphone, and might not be carrying my computer with me). Do smartphones have that facility (i.e., a field to enter a URL without passing it to a search engine, exactly like the old browsers used to do with the address bar)? If so, how do I instruct the Android user (and/or iOS user) to find the field where they can type in the URL and not have it be processed by a search engine?

I have a Google Pixel 4a running Android 11, and I haven't been able to open any links in Chrome by tapping them. On my old Android 9 phone, I was able to tap/select a URL, and there was an option to open the URL in Chrome. I used this feature heavily when opening links from my email client. Chrome is set as my default browser. In the app permissions for Opening Links, Chrome's option to open supported links is greyed out. The option to open supported links is also greyed out for all other web browsers. Interestingly, if I select the first part of a link, like https://www.example.com , there is an option to open the URL in Chrome. But if I select the full link, like https://www.example.com/abc , then the option to open in Chrome disappears. Screenshot for selecting partial link: Screenshot for selecting full link: My phone is rooted.

In windows, we can create a .url file to link to a website. How can I do this on Android? I want to send some links to my Android device from my PC.

When you send an SMS/Text, the Messaging app converts to clickable link certain patterns of text, when it matches a URL. Of course I can use the Android emulator to emulate SMS messages and check what top-level domains (TLD) are converted to link. But I was curious and wanted to know the complete list. I have searched the source code of the stock Android app and even other projects (QKSMS ) but found nothing. P.S. When you prefix the URL with 'http://' all TLD are converted to link. Update: My first test (see screenshot) corresponds to Android 7. I've checked that Android 9 recognizes new TLDs.