Concept for replacing third party applications

ACuriousFellow

Problem I'm trying to solve:

Apps have additional permissions / trackers etc
Webapps through the browser don't, but potentially add N number of tracking cookies which would need clearing to prevent tracking across the rest of the internet.

Idea:
Trying to find a way to have an 'app' which wraps an instance of vanadium and holds all the cookies / session etc within the scope of the app.

What I've tried so far:
Webview:
I've looked into really basic wrapping using web views, however the performance is shocking and I've run up against known issues with SSL verification chains . There is also the issue of trust that the webview isn't tracking what is happening .

Other options :
Chrome custom tabs, however according to the documentation, this uses a shared cookie jar for user convenience to not have to re sign in.

I'm continuing my own research as I'd like to find a generic solution to this.

End goal.

I want to have the convenience of an app (a launcher icon with saved state / sessions etc), with an option of biometrics and contained cookies. My plan would then to replace my banking app with the web interface, eBay, other shopping sites etc .

Any advice, pointers or guidance would be much appreciated.

GlytchMeister

I use NativeAlpha to kinda bootleg-approximate the experience of a Progressive Web App when there isn't one available. No notifications, and Discord doesn't like it any better than regular Vanadium so it's hard to get calls to work (I was able to kinda get them to work my messing with the Custom User Agent thing, but it made the rest of Discord very janky).

However, it uses the Vanadium webview, it just uh... From what little I understand... It makes a Vanadium tab that always has its own "window" (for lack of a better term, I grew up on Windows, sorry).

I have no idea if this is actually any good but it's the best I've managed to find that is actually FOSS.

There's something else that does something similar but it isn't Open Source, and their reasoning for not being Open Source is... Flimsy. Can't remember what it was called, tho.