Privacy alert: Maxthon web browser sends private data about users to China

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    something back, Jul 17, 2016
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    That's interesting. Thanks for the info, i'll be sure to stay away from this browser.
     
    obliviousme, Jul 19, 2016
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    Am I the only one here who has never heard of this browser? I think in general its best to stay away from anything that's not FireFox or Chrome, but even then there are reports of suspicious activity going on with Chrome reporting our data to Google.
     
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    Recently, when I needed an alternate browser, I installed maxthon. I have not used it yet. If the browser sends data to China, I will never use it. I will check the link.
     
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    I remember Maxthon from around 2002 or 2003, and when I saw it and used it just to load a few pages, it was clunky and just a front-end for Internet Explorer. It wasn't like Opera or Firefox having its own separate rendering engine or security. A lot of the web browsing programs that were called new browsers really just used Internet Explorer based API calls and had trivial differences. Maxthon was one of them, even though it hides it a little better than some of the others did (with a process monitor you can see that it's the same, though).

    It's a sad day for browsers...sad week, actually. I just found out that the day before yesterday, Opera decided to sell out to China, and a Chinese company has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to acquire the name and technology from them. From this day forward, Opera will no longer be what it used to be, and will be run and managed from China (just like Maxthon but perhaps worse). So any time I use a windows system in emulation or a linux system now, I am no longer using Opera because of this. :(

    Thanks for letting people know about Maxthon, though. A lot of folks are using that and are not aware that that browser (and several others) work the same and send info back to where they shouldn't. I guess Opera is going to do the same as Edge/IE/Maxthon now...
     
    IBMPC8088, Jul 19, 2016
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