PlayStation 5 has a hidden web browser you can access easily
Topics: PlayStation 5, PlayStation, Sony
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Topics: PlayStation 5, PlayStation, Sony
There’s a super secret way to access the PlayStation 5’s in-built web browser, and Sony is doing everything in their power to stop people from doing so.
Over the years, there have been a few ways you could access the PlayStation 5’s browser, but all of these have slowly been patched out over the course of the console’s lifespan.
The most popular (and easiest) one just required you to access the Twitter app through your PS5, which you could then use to log in to your Twitter account and select literally any link posted through the app.
After that was patched out (following the removal of the Twitter app on PlayStation), people found another one by accessing the YouTube “link” page through the “Linked Services” tab. Apparently this one also doesn’t work any more either, but don’t worry - folks found another way.
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Turns out, if you message a friend a link to a site through the PlayStation messaging feature… you can then just open that link and access the web browser that way.
Accept, wait, that’s also sort of been patched too. Users were messaging each other links to either Google or Bing, but these links are now being automatically blocked when sent through PlayStation messages.
Some bright spark on the r/playstation subreddit recently discovered a brand new workaround though: Wikipedia.
You see, if you send someone the link to a page on Wikipedia, Sony won’t block the link. From there, you can access the Bing Wikipedia page… because the Bing Wikipedia page has a link for the Bing search engine on it.
Then you can assumedly use Bing to search for Google, so you don’t actually have to use Bing.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Sony starts blocking Wikipedia links soon too, so keep an eye out for a brand-new exploit in the coming weeks.
Oh, hey, I wonder if you could just send your friends a link to this article instead? Here’s a link to Google for future testing.