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

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 29, 2011 @03:40AM 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.

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Been reading about this for a few days now by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-29 03:51 · Score: 5, Interesting

...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.