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wraggster
October 29th, 2011, 21:39
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 (http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/10/27/privacy-advisory-dolphin-hd-sends-url-of-every-page-you-visit-to-a-remote-server-in-plain-text/), 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 (http://blog.dolphin-browser.com/2011/10/27/webzine-does-not-store-user-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.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/29/1251215/dolphin-a-3rd-party-android-browser-relayed-url-data