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Android hacked? Any URL could be deeplinked to your app by default!

A Google bug? Hopes Google patches it up soon if so.

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I was debugging a deep link issue into the App, there I discovered a lot of Apps have some issues on deeplink as stated in the article below.

Unrealized deeplink bug on many apps

When performing more investigation, exploring how to fix it, then I came across this issue which could be a loophole on Android itself.

The background

As we know if we want to have our App to support certain URL to deeplink into our App by default (without asking if it should open in Chrome), we can do it as per recommended by the document

Verify Android App Links | Android Developers