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Maxthon browser is a spyware

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Re: Maxthon browser is a spyware

#3

Post by ksdev »

English report: https://exatel.pl/advisory/maxthonreporten.pdf

TL;DR: It doesn't matter if you agree to join "User Experience Improvement Program" in Maxthon or not - the browser regularly sends this data to Beijing servers:

  - Windows service pack version,
  - screen resolution,
  - Maxthon version,
  - CPU freq,
  - Maxthon path,
  - adblock info,
  - startup site address,
and the most important:

  - ADDRESS OF EVERY VISITED SITE - full history, with every query entered in google,
  - every ~5 reports - FULL LIST OF INSTALLED SOFTWARE (with exact versions).

Re: Maxthon browser is a spyware

#5

Post by pavel_lishin »

deallocator wrote: post #4
enedil wrote: post #2

Although I'm a pole, I'd appreciate if this link was posted with translation.

Care to give a TLDR of the article? I'm afraid my Polish isn't great

Chrome's auto-translation was good enough that it was very readable; you can try Google translate.

ksdev also wrote a succinct TLDR here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12095127

Re: Maxthon browser is a spyware

#6

Post by zeta0134 »

Holy crap. That is just a ton of information being sent up there. (Also, as solely an English speaker, I'm very impressed with Google Translate's ability to parse this article out into a readable form.)

I mean to their credit, the NSA is not in Beijing. I dunno though, this seems a lot worse. What a mess. This is part of the reason I won't buy Lenovo computers anymore. The Maxthon browser is installed by default, along with all sorts of other junkware and god knows what any of it actually does.

Re: Maxthon browser is a spyware

#7

Post by ksdev »

ksdev wrote: post #3

English report: https://exatel.pl/advisory/maxthonreporten.pdf TL;DR: It doesn't matter if you agree to join "User Experience Improvement Program" in Maxthon or not - the browser regularly sends this data to Beijing servers: - Windows service pack version, - screen resolution, - Maxthon version, - CPU freq, - Maxthon path, - adblock info, - startup site address, and the most important: - ADDRESS OF EVERY VISITED SITE…

The biggest Polish software news site removed Maxthon from its database: http://www.dobreprogramy.pl/Maxthon-to-spyware.-Polscy-badac...
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