If you're using Maxthon as a browser....don't

Couperin47

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Maxthon started as nothing more than an IE shell and was utterly useless. It has since developed into a 2nd rate 'me too' Webkit browser. Did I mention it's a Chinese company ? We have just discovered it quite efficiently periodically phones home to a server in Beijing and reports, well, everything: all your browsing activity, everything you have installed on your device, everything you communicate and search and pretty much anything else it can discover. If you love being seriously surveilled while on line, at least use Chrome and be sure you're being spied on by good old 'Muricans.

BTW If you actually like Chrome, consider Opera or Vivaldi, the same basic engine, some seriously better features and nobody actually spying on you.

https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/07/14/1439255/maxthon-web-browser-sends-sensitive-data-to-china?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline+(Slashdot:+Your+Rights+Online)
 

SumnerH

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Maxthon started as nothing more than an IE shell and was utterly useless. It has since developed into a 2nd rate 'me too' Webkit browser. Did I mention it's a Chinese company ? We have just discovered it quite efficiently periodically phones home to a server in Beijing and reports, well, everything: all your browsing activity, everything you have installed on your device, everything you communicate and search and pretty much anything else it can discover. If you love being seriously surveilled while on line, at least use Chrome and be sure you're being spied on by good old 'Muricans.

BTW If you actually like Chrome, consider Opera or Vivaldi, the same basic engine, some seriously better features and nobody actually spying on you.

https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/07/14/1439255/maxthon-web-browser-sends-sensitive-data-to-china?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline+(Slashdot:+Your+Rights+Online)
Or Chromium, which is open source and basically just removes the spying stuff from Chrome.
 

Couperin47

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Or Chromium, which is open source and basically just removes the spying stuff from Chrome.
Yeah, there are a few others, a German based one who's name escapes me atm. Opera and Vivaldi are the 2 that are trying to evolve beyond being a clone, or becoming bloated, depending on your viewpoint.... I've been playing with Opera, it's got a more liberal extensions policy and there's a "Download Chrome extensions" extension in their own library which allows it to also install any Chrome extension. It's very stable. Tons of features, but, for example it's own Ad blocker is OK but blocked serious elements of many mainstream sites, I'm using it with uBlock Origin that, out of the box, is eerily intuitive everywhere I go.
 

derekson

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I mainly use Safari, but recently swapped my secondary/Flash playing browser from Chrome to Vivaldi. I've actually been quite impressed with the latter.