Ok, I need to be clear here: this is absolutely not saying an app can access the browsing history in safari, nor can it access the browsing history of any app.
It can very obviously record your browsing history in that app. If it sends that data to its home servers, then the app would have to declare that it collected "browsing history".
"Information about the content you have viewed that is not part of the app, such as websites."
that is it can record things other than you interacting with buttons in the app, or what type of music you're listening to, etc. Browsing history gets called at explicitly here because people using non-chrome browsers expect browsing history to be private.
You solved the puzzle I think. The wording was designed specifically for browser apps. They didn’t anticipate non-browsing apps to be using webview. Also I was exaggerating when I said hundreds of apps. Seeing it on PayPal is what threw me off
It can very obviously record your browsing history in that app. If it sends that data to its home servers, then the app would have to declare that it collected "browsing history".
"Information about the content you have viewed that is not part of the app, such as websites."
that is it can record things other than you interacting with buttons in the app, or what type of music you're listening to, etc. Browsing history gets called at explicitly here because people using non-chrome browsers expect browsing history to be private.