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Dolphin, a 3rd Party Android Browser, Relayed URL Data

Posted by Soulskill on from the question-of-intent dept.

An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from AndroidPolice.com: "As it turns out, Dolphin HD, one of the top browsers the Android platform has to offer, sends pretty much every web page URL you visit, including those that start with https, to a remote server en.mywebzines.com, which belongs to the company. In fact, the WebZines feature was introduced only recently back in June with version 6.0, so it's safe to say this tracking started around the same time.'" The Dolphin team quickly responded with a blog post saying they did not store any of the data, and no browsing information was captured about users. They also rolled out a new version of the browser, 7.0.2, which fixed the issue.

2 of 179 comments (clear)

  1. Re:One more proof walled garden is better by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dolphin is available for iOS and offers the same WebZines "feature" ;-)

  2. Re:Meaning... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Or how Apple stored location details of all users all the time on the iphone and even exposed that outside the phone? Yep, ANDROID/GOOGLE is BAD!!