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
by zeta0134 on Thursday July 14, 2016 @12:27PM
(#12095191)
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
by JohnTHaller on Thursday July 14, 2016 @02:34PM
(#12096242)
Does anyone know if this has been independently confirmed by anyone else? If it gets confirmed, we'll be pulling it from PortableApps.com as well. Discussion/tracker: http://portableapps.com/node/54786
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:
and the most important: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.
ksdev also wrote a succinct TLDR here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12095127