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

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.

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Been reading about this for a few days now

[Anonymous Coward]

...over at xda-developers.com.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319529

That was their good deed for the week. Now for the bad deed of the week, they refuse to remove an ARP poisoning app so people can kill individual users on public wifi networks: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282900

Probably worthy of it's own /. article.

I'm starting to wonder why people care

[rsilvergun]

about tracking. Seriously. You're tracked EVERYWHERE you go. You know all those free email accounts? How about Facebook? Your Newegg account? Amazon.com? Yep. All Tracked. Moreover, are people so easily manipulated to their detriment that a little web tracking matters. I guess there's the big scary gov't. But seriously. If a modern gov't is tracking you it's more for the hell of it then any real need to use it to oppress. A modern military does all that by itself. I'm ten times more worried about the Unions disintegrating then I am over some twit advertiser knowing what I googled last week.