How a Chinese Company Built a $250M Search Hijacking Empire

Post by d3v » Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 8:24 PM UTC

fnord77 wrote: post #35

dumbfounder wrote: post #30

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It's still sort of doing what the extension says it is going to do. On the extension page it says "Keep your searches private by redirecting searches that may be tracked to Search Encrypt, a privacy-focused search engine... For your privacy, Search Encrypt intercepts the requests if it's on our list of sites" So it says it hijacks right in the description. On their website for their "search engine" it says "The Searc…

your searches are not private though, since one they're decrypted on searchencrypt.com, they're logged as per chinese government reporting laws.