gmail app advertises Inbox by Gmail (Android version)

Bug #1555390 reported by Selene ToyKeeper
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
Triaged
Medium
David Barth
The Webapps-core project
Triaged
Medium
Alexandre Abreu
webapps-sprint
Triaged
Medium
Alexandre Abreu

Bug Description

Lately the Gmail web app advertises its Android version on startup, with a button to tap for installing that app. This obviously won't work on Ubuntu Touch, and it seems counter-productive to advertise a competing platform. Is there any way this page can be bypassed by default?

Screenshot attached, showing what happens the first time the app runs.

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Selene ToyKeeper (toykeeper) wrote :
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David Barth (dbarth) wrote : Re: [Ubuntu-webapps-bugs] [Bug 1555390] [NEW] gmail app advertises Android version

It is a cat & mouse game, and here the cat is big and does ads placement
for a living...
We can add a patch that tries to detect that. It will last what it will,
until the next ad campaign.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Selene Scriven <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> Lately the Gmail web app advertises its Android version on startup, with
> a button to tap for installing that app. This obviously won't work on
> Ubuntu Touch, and it seems counter-productive to advertise a competing
> platform. Is there any way this page can be bypassed by default?
>
> Screenshot attached, showing what happens the first time the app runs.
>
> ** Affects: canonical-devices-system-image
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Affects: unity-webapps-gmail (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Attachment added: "gmail-android-ad.png"
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1555390/+attachment/4594439/+files/gmail-android-ad.png
>
> ** Also affects: canonical-devices-system-image
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1555390
>
> Title:
> gmail app advertises Android version
>
> Status in Canonical System Image:
> New
> Status in unity-webapps-gmail package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Lately the Gmail web app advertises its Android version on startup,
> with a button to tap for installing that app. This obviously won't
> work on Ubuntu Touch, and it seems counter-productive to advertise a
> competing platform. Is there any way this page can be bypassed by
> default?
>
> Screenshot attached, showing what happens the first time the app runs.
>
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summary: - gmail app advertises Android version
+ gmail app advertises Inbox by Gmail (Android version)
no longer affects: unity-webapps-gmail (Ubuntu)
Changed in webapps-sprint:
milestone: none → sprint-20
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
assignee: nobody → David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in webapps-core:
assignee: nobody → Alexandre Abreu (abreu-alexandre)
Changed in webapps-sprint:
assignee: nobody → Alexandre Abreu (abreu-alexandre)
Changed in webapps-core:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in webapps-sprint:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in webapps-core:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in webapps-sprint:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → backlog
David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in webapps-sprint:
milestone: sprint-20 → backlog
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Stefan Mikulaj (stefanmikulaj-k) wrote :

This happening as well while browsing the net and the websute ask yiu to install the Android app if their website. It's hapenning all the time. See the attachment.
Pro 5, Stabke, OTA-13, meizu-pd.en

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