- This part of the article should have the name of the program and what - it does, and who develops it. -
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops @@ -33,6 +29,7 @@ specific product, and the rating system is difficult to fit into this article.
+Modern CPU models produced by AMD contain an embedded ARM co-processor called the Platform Security Processor (PSP). Nearly all AMD CPUs @@ -42,6 +39,7 @@ I/O. [1]
+This article isn't complete. This is a work-in-progress and so this article is not formatted properly... @@ -50,6 +48,7 @@ http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_PlugFest_AMD_Security_and_Server_innovation_AMD_March_2013.pdf (page 11)
+While ARM and AMD tout the “Trusted Execution Environment” as useful for secure payment, anti-theft and malware protection, they also diff --git a/articles/bing.html b/articles/bing.html index 144c1f5..465cd14 100644 --- a/articles/bing.html +++ b/articles/bing.html @@ -15,10 +15,6 @@
- This part of the article should have the name of the program and what - it does, and who develops it. -
Bing is yet another spyware search engine that collects your
@@ -145,11 +141,13 @@
>[web.archive.org]
[archive.li]
+ [etched.page]
+ [ghostarchive.org]
If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us diff --git a/articles/brave.html b/articles/brave.html index 47b2c7c..1efc8d6 100644 --- a/articles/brave.html +++ b/articles/brave.html @@ -65,46 +65,102 @@
1. + +
+ 1. Brave's website - [web.archive.org]
-2. + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 2. Add a disable autoupdate feature - [web.archive.org]
-3. + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 3. Brave Rewards Program - [web.archive.org]
-4. + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 4. Plugin Information? - [web.archive.org]
-5. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 5. Facebook, Twitter Trackers Whitelisted by Brave Browser - [web.archive.org]
-6. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 6. Brave Browser Features - [web.archive.org]
-7. + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 7. Script Blocking Exceptions Update - [web.archive.org]
-8. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] + +
+ ++ 8. Brave's Analytics - [web.archive.org]
-9. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 9. + Brave's static site - [archive.is]
-10. + [archive.is] + [archive.org] +
+ ++ 10. Brave's Deviations from Chromium - [web.archive.org]
-11. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 11. Allow to opt-out of Griffin variations - [web.archive.org]
-12. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 12. Only make requests to *.rewards.brave.com... - [web.archive.org]
+ [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] + +If you want to contribute to this website, you can always make a pull request.
All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted.
diff --git a/articles/brave_ru.html b/articles/brave_ru.html
index ca73a24..de60922 100644
--- a/articles/brave_ru.html
+++ b/articles/brave_ru.html
@@ -65,42 +65,95 @@
1. +
+ 1. Brave's website - [web.archive.org]
-2. + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 2. Add a disable autoupdate feature - [web.archive.org]
-3. + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 3. Brave Rewards Program - [web.archive.org]
-4. + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 4. Plugin Information? - [web.archive.org]
-5. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 5. Facebook, Twitter Trackers Whitelisted by Brave Browser - [web.archive.org]
-6. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 6. Brave Browser Features - [web.archive.org]
-7. + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 7. Script Blocking Exceptions Update - [web.archive.org]
-8. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] + +
+ ++ 8. Brave's Analytics - [web.archive.org]
-9. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 9. + Brave's static site - [archive.is]
-10. + [archive.is] + [archive.org] +
+ ++ 10. Brave's Deviations from Chromium - [web.archive.org]
-11. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 11. Allow to opt-out of Griffin variations - [web.archive.org]
-12. + [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+ ++ 12. Only make requests to *.rewards.brave.com... - [web.archive.org]
+ [web.archive.org] + [ghostarchive.org] +CCleaner clearly shows in its privacy settings that it is collecting information about your computer and selling that information to - advertisers: + advertisers. Below is a screenshot on how to mitigate some of it.
If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us diff --git a/articles/chrome.html b/articles/chrome.html index 8a5a268..522fce6 100644 --- a/articles/chrome.html +++ b/articles/chrome.html @@ -111,23 +111,51 @@
If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us at the git repo on Codeberg.
All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted.
diff --git a/articles/chrome_es.html b/articles/chrome_es.html
index 79a2cda..5a8ccde 100644
--- a/articles/chrome_es.html
+++ b/articles/chrome_es.html
@@ -69,31 +69,40 @@
- 1.
- Google Chrome Privacy Notice
- [archive.is]
- [web.archive.org]
- 2.
- Google Payments Privacy Notice
- [web.archive.org]
- 3.
- Google Chrome – Spyware? Confirmed?
- [web.archive.org]
- [archive.li]
- 4.
- Google Chrome a Keylogger – Privacy Concerns
- [web.archive.org]
- [archive.li]
- 5.
- Privacy Notice for Google Accounts Managed with Family Link (“Privacy Notice”)
- [web.archive.org]
- [archive.li]
-
- This article was created on 11/23/2018
+ This article was created on 08/17/2021
This is a translation of the english article. It may become outdated- compare the dates on both articles.
diff --git a/articles/chrome_pl.html b/articles/chrome_pl.html index 7ba6e90..78dd061 100644 --- a/articles/chrome_pl.html +++ b/articles/chrome_pl.html @@ -119,12 +119,35 @@
Discord will lock users out of its service and will not allow them to continue using it without giving their phone number or contacting - Discord support. This kind of feature is designed to extract very + Discord support. This is especially true for TOR users. + This kind of feature is designed to extract very personal information out of its users (phone numbers). The criteria for locking out users isn't known. [archive.is][ghostarchive.org]
If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us
diff --git a/articles/discord_es.html b/articles/discord_es.html
index 8e3ed5c..383b459 100644
--- a/articles/discord_es.html
+++ b/articles/discord_es.html
@@ -97,37 +97,132 @@ por si el link muere.
[web.archive.org]
- 1.
- Discord Privacy Policy
- [web.archive.org]
- [archive.is]
-
- 2.
- Why is Discord recording our open programs and uploading them?
- [web.archive.org]
- [archive.is]
-
- 3.
- Discord
- [wayback.archive-it.org]
- [archive.is]
-
- 4.
- Crunchbase
- [web.archive.org]
- [archive.is]
-
- 5.
- Discord Nitro
- [archive.is]
-
- 6.
- Discord receives government requests. No plans on adding E2E Encryption any time soon.
- [archive.is]
- [web.archive.org]
-
This article was created on 11/18/2018
diff --git a/articles/dissenter.html b/articles/dissenter.html
index 6cd8aac..ea022bd 100644
--- a/articles/dissenter.html
+++ b/articles/dissenter.html
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Brave for autoupdates and safebrowsing, which is hosted by Brave. The default se
The browser has two extensions preinstalled. One extension, "Shields", blocks certain advertisement scripts. The other,
"Dissenter" allows you to access the Dissenter social network. This extension phones home to several places whenever you open it,
including Google and Twitter. The Dissenter social network also inherently must collect more information about the user's browsing
-habits than the current alternatives that already exist.
+habits than the current alternatives that already exist. It also doesn't help that their privacy policy is basically empty.
@@ -89,12 +89,14 @@ Every once in a while, the Browser will send a request to Brave's instance of th
1.
Dissenter Privacy Policy
- [web.archive.org]
- [archive.is]
+ [web.archive.org]
+ [archive.fo]
+ [ghostarchive.org]
+
- This article was last edited on 5/24/2019 + This article was last edited on 8/17/2021
If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us at the git repo on Codeberg. All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted. diff --git a/articles/duckduckgo.html b/articles/duckduckgo.html index c6200d3..8fc2173 100644 --- a/articles/duckduckgo.html +++ b/articles/duckduckgo.html @@ -1,28 +1,33 @@ - - + +
- - + +
+
+
+
DuckDuckGo is a search engine created by Gabriel Weinberg and owned by Duck Duck Go, Inc.
-DuckDuckGo is a search engine that claims to protect the privacy of its users.[1] Since this a centralized service, there is no way to prove that it isn't spyware just by looking at the technology that it uses. There are some red flags that could cause you to doubt that this service is truly private, and so this article will just list them here to help you decide on whether or not to use this service. Ultimately there isn't proof that DuckDuckGo is spyware- but a few reasons to suspect it of being spyware. Even though, it's worth noting that - DuckDuckGo offers an onion domain... so you don't need to trust it to use it as long as you access it through TOR. + DuckDuckGo offers an onion domain... so you don't need to trust it to use it as long as you access it through TOR.
@@ -39,49 +44,60 @@ DuckDuckGo is a search engine created by Gabriel Weinberg and owned by Duck Duck
DuckDuckGo uses clear gifs from the domain improving.duckduckgo.com. This is a tracking technique and can be used to collect analytics about your web browser.
Whenever you use DuckDuckGo, several requests will be sent to this domain.[4] This is of course not the kind of behavior that you would expect from a privacy concerned website, but there it is. Do you trust DuckDuckGo to collect "anonymous" analytics about you?
/tech/ FAQs — DuckDuckGo
[web.archive.org]
[archive.is]
- [www.webcitation.org]
+ [www.webcitation.org]
1.
DuckDuckGo Privacy Policy
[www.webcitation.org]
[arquivo.pt]
- [archive.is]
+ [archive.is]
+ [ghostarchive.org]
+
+
2.
Still trust DuckDuckGo? (dead link)
[archive.is]
- [web.archive.org]
+ [web.archive.org]
+
+
3.
- DuckDuckGo: The mistaken belief of the NSA-safe search engine*
+ DuckDuckGo: The mistaken belief of the NSA-safe search engine*
+
+
+
4.
- Site Improvements
- [web.archive.org]
+ Site Improvements
+ [web.archive.org]
+ [ghostarchive.org]
+
+
*This is a machine-translated mirror of an article written in German hosted here. Links to the original article can be found on that page.
-- This article was last edited on 9/16/2018 + This article was last edited on 8/17/2021
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-
+
If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us at the git repo on Codeberg.
All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted.
diff --git a/articles/firefox.html b/articles/firefox.html index ed39270..a8ec404 100644 --- a/articles/firefox.html +++ b/articles/firefox.html @@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ The best takeaway to this is that Mozilla wants to pretend that including spywar Share data with Mozilla to help improve Firefox [web.archive.org] [archive.fo] + [ghostarchive.org]@@ -185,21 +186,32 @@ they should be set too:
- This article was last edited on 5/25/2020 + This article was last edited on 08/17/2021
This article was created on 11/23/2017 diff --git a/articles/google.html b/articles/google.html index bad2d99..c912dae 100644 --- a/articles/google.html +++ b/articles/google.html @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ services when concerning user privacy.
Google Privacy policy
[web.archive.org]
+ [ghostarchive.org]/a>
[wayback.vefsafn.is]
[archive.li]
diff --git a/articles/http.html b/articles/http.html
index 7338087..9f34751 100644
--- a/articles/http.html
+++ b/articles/http.html
@@ -30,8 +30,18 @@
1.Section 14 of the HTTP/1.1 Specification [web.archive.org] 2.Section 15 of the HTTP/1.1 Specification [web.archive.org]
+ 1.
+ Section 14 of the HTTP/1.1 Specification
+ [web.archive.org]
+ [ghostarchive.org]
+
+ 2.
+ Section 15 of the HTTP/1.1 Specification
+ [web.archive.org]
+ [ghostarchive.org]
+ This article was created on 5/14/2018 This article was lasted edited on 10/11/2020
diff --git a/articles/ksp.html b/articles/ksp.html
index abec6a8..e2eb1fe 100644
--- a/articles/ksp.html
+++ b/articles/ksp.html
@@ -156,22 +156,23 @@
TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE, Inc. PRIVACY POLICY
[web.archive.org]
[archive.is]Sources
-
2
Instagram's TOS
+ [archive.org]
[archive.is]
+ [ghostarchive.org]
@@ -74,12 +77,16 @@ Whenever a user takes a picture on a modern smartphone, GPS Coordinates are stor
3
HelloGiggles Article on the New DM feature
[archive.is]
+ [web.archive.org]
+ [ghostarchive.org]
4
Instagram Listens In
[archive.is]
+ [web.archive.org]
+ [ghostarchive.org]
diff --git a/articles/iron.html b/articles/iron.html
index 8a6a74d..cd6d823 100644
--- a/articles/iron.html
+++ b/articles/iron.html
@@ -169,11 +169,15 @@
+ [archive.is]
+
+ [web.archive.org]
+ [ghostarchive.org]
+
+
-
+[ghostarchive.org]
2.
Does KSP v1.4 really have spyware in it?
[web.archive.org]
-
+[ghostarchive.org]
3.
[PSA] RED SHELL Spyware — "Holy Potatoes! We’re in Space?!" integrated and removed it after complaints
-[snew.github.io]
+[removeddit]
[archive.is]
+[ghostarchive.org]
- This article was last updated on 5/30/2018 + This article was last updated on 8/17/2021
If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us at the git repo on Codeberg. All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted. diff --git a/articles/netsurf.html b/articles/netsurf.html index 0f30e09..29f6497 100644 --- a/articles/netsurf.html +++ b/articles/netsurf.html @@ -26,7 +26,12 @@
And it will stay that way. From their FAQ (the message used to be there in 2017, they must have deleted it somewhere in 2018):
-Opera has no current plans to open source its browser.
+Opera has not officialy open sourced its browser. However, leaks of the Presto web engine Opera used have appeared on the internet.
-Therefore, some other spyware might be hiding in there.
+Even with that however, there could still other spyware might be hiding in there.
1.Telegram Privacy Policy [web.archive.org]
-2.Where are the sources of the latest releases? [web.archive.org]
+1. + Telegram Privacy Policy + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
++ 2. + Where are the sources of the latest releases? + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
This article was created on 2/18/2019
This article was lasted edited on 10/11/2020
diff --git a/articles/tiktok.html b/articles/tiktok.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ae8f5ce --- /dev/null +++ b/articles/tiktok.html @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ + + + + + + + + + + +
+ + Tiktok is a social media app allowing people to post short form videos, usually from a couple seconds + to up to 3 minutes long in length. +
++ Like Discord, TikTok is spyware because all data goes through a central server, and multidues of data on you and your device are collected, sometimes even without your consent. +
++ Tiktok explicitly confirms in its privacy policy[1] + that it collects/can access the following information: +
+It also collects data from outside companies ("advertising partners") from third parties without your consent.
++ If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us + at the git repo on + Codeberg. +
++ All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be + accepted. +
+ +
+
+
+
diff --git a/articles/ungoogled_chromium.html b/articles/ungoogled_chromium.html
index 7b542c3..69a57f9 100644
--- a/articles/ungoogled_chromium.html
+++ b/articles/ungoogled_chromium.html
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ looking for a Chrome-based browser to switch too without taking the time to comp
Ungoogled-Chromium
[web.archive.org]
[archive.is]
+
diff --git a/articles/utorrent.html b/articles/utorrent.html
index a040cb9..354044f 100644
--- a/articles/utorrent.html
+++ b/articles/utorrent.html
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
uTorrent
+ Not finished (obviously)
diff --git a/articles/vlc.html b/articles/vlc.html
index a75cb66..e85b1c4 100644
--- a/articles/vlc.html
+++ b/articles/vlc.html
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ VLC Media player searches through online databases to find complete album covers
1.
Companies bundling spyware, adware with open-source media player
[web.archive.org]
- [archive.is]
+ [archive.is]
+ [ghostarchive.org]
+
diff --git a/articles/waterfox_classic.html b/articles/waterfox_classic.html index c9f06ad..1eec67a 100644 --- a/articles/waterfox_classic.html +++ b/articles/waterfox_classic.html @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Self updates are a spyware feature since they are usually ways for the developer of a program to put spyware into their software without presenting it in a prominent way where the user can understand what they are giving up when they download the update.
+Other known spywares, like Chromium, make use of this method
- -WebDiscover is a web browser made by WebDiscover Media. -
--WebDiscover uses the spyware search engine Yahoo as it's default search engine, but on its website it says it uses the spyware -search engine Bing as it's default search engine. It is hard to review since every time I run it, -it messes up MITMproxy so I can't see what it's doing. The privacy policy explains that it collects a large amount of personal information from its users, so it is at least not a secret that this browser is spyware. This program acts in a very suspicious way and -the privacy policy contains a lot of language in it about the use of the information it collects that elevates it -to a uniquely bad stance on user privacy and use of user information, so I would recommend staying far away from it. -
-- WebDiscover is mostly installed through other programs as an opt-out. This means that most users did not want to install this browser, and - were tricked into doing it by other software's installer programs. For example[2]: - [1] [2] [3] [4] - [5] [6] [7] [8] - [9] [10] -
--According to its privacy policy[1], WebDiscover collects the following information about its users as its browser is downloaded and used: -
--Some of this information is typical of the kind of info that is collected by developers who write programs that phone -home using the HTTP protocol. However, WebDiscover also collects the following information about its users which is -more concerning: -
-- "We may collect Personal Data and Anonymous Data when you download the Browser. We may also collect Personal Data when you send us information or communications directly. “Personal Data” means data that allows someone to identify or contact you including, without limitation, your name, physical address, electronic mail (email) address, phone number, and credit card information (collectively, your “Personal Data”) for the purposes of recording the transaction when you engage in activities on the Site or through use of the Browser." - [1]
-- So, WebDiscover will profile your computer, and WebDiscover Media will use every opportunity they get to collect - information about you. -
-- In this quote from the privacy policy: -
-- "We may share Anonymous Data with selected third parties and business partners..." -
-- Confirming that the information that WebDiscover collects about you will be sold to advertisers. -
-- WebDiscover sells your information to advertising companies that will send you junk mail separately from - WebDiscover's discretion- it also DOES NOT comply with requests to stop contact, and requires you to separately - request each company that it has sold your information to, to stop contacting you. I didn't check if they would comply - with those requests or not. The following quotes from the privacy policy should explain this: -
-- "To opt-out of having future third-party marketing communications sent to you, you will be required to unsubscribe with the applicable third party providers. Despite your request to no longer receive future newsletters or promotional and marketing communications from us, we reserve the right to continue to send you notices of any updates to the Browser, our Software End User License Agreement, and our Privacy Policy." - [1]
-- WebDiscover also claims that anyone who acts in a way that "damages the reputation" of their company will have all of the - personal information that WebDiscover has collected about them disclosed to any party at their discretion. -
-- "If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have engaged in conduct which might be considered, unlawful, fraudulent, or which might harm or damage the reputation or standing of WebDiscover Media with either the general public or with a business partner or potential business partner of WebDiscover Media, we reserve the right to release your Personal Information to such persons or third parties as we consider necessary in order to prevent you from causing injury to, or otherwise injuring or interfering, now or in the future, with WebDiscover Media' rights, property or operations or otherwise the rights, property or operations of anyone else who could be harmed by such conduct." - [1]
-- Which is basically threatening their users that they will use the information they collect to dox anyone who says bad things about their software. - This is possibly the most anti-user statement that I have read in a privacy policy. -
-When WebDiscover is started, it will begin making requests to this domain:
-ec2-54-191-159-75.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
-- This is presumably how it collects a lot of the personal information about its users. - This was discovered using Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4. -
-
- 1.
- WebDiscover Privacy Policy
- [web.archive.org]
- [archive.is]
- 2.
- WebDiscover removal instructions
- [archive.is]
-
- This article was last edited on 8/4/2018 -
-- If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), visit us at the git repo on Codeberg. All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted. -
-
-
-
+ WebDiscover is a web browser made by WebDiscover Media.
+WebDiscover uses the spyware search engine Yahoo as it's default search engine, but on its website it says it uses the spyware search engine Bing as it's default search engine. It is hard to review since every time I run it, it messes up MITMproxy so I can't see what it's doing. The privacy policy explains that it collects a large amount of personal information from its users, so it is at least not a secret that this browser is spyware. This program acts in a very suspicious way and the privacy policy contains a lot of language in it about the use of the information it collects that elevates it to a uniquely bad stance on user privacy and use of user information, so I would recommend staying far away from it.
+WebDiscover is mostly installed through other programs as an opt-out. This means that most users did not want to install this browser, and were tricked into doing it by other software's installer programs. For example[2]: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
+According to its privacy policy[1], WebDiscover collects the following information about its users as its browser is downloaded and used:
+Some of this information is typical of the kind of info that is collected by developers who write programs that phone home using the HTTP protocol. However, WebDiscover also collects the following information about its users which is more concerning:
+"We may collect Personal Data and Anonymous Data when you download the Browser. We may also collect Personal Data when you send us information or communications directly. “Personal Data” means data that allows someone to identify or contact you including, without limitation, your name, physical address, electronic mail (email) address, phone number, and credit card information (collectively, your “Personal Data”) for the purposes of recording the transaction when you engage in activities on the Site or through use of the Browser."[1]
+So, WebDiscover will profile your computer, and WebDiscover Media will use every opportunity they get to collect information about you.
+In this quote from the privacy policy:
+"We may share Anonymous Data with selected third parties and business partners..."
+Confirming that the information that WebDiscover collects about you will be sold to advertisers.
+WebDiscover sells your information to advertising companies that will send you junk mail separately from WebDiscover's discretion- it also DOES NOT comply with requests to stop contact, and requires you to separately request each company that it has sold your information to, to stop contacting you. I didn't check if they would comply with those requests or not. The following quotes from the privacy policy should explain this:
+"To opt-out of having future third-party marketing communications sent to you, you will be required to unsubscribe with the applicable third party providers. Despite your request to no longer receive future newsletters or promotional and marketing communications from us, we reserve the right to continue to send you notices of any updates to the Browser, our Software End User License Agreement, and our Privacy Policy."[1]
+WebDiscover also claims that anyone who acts in a way that "damages the reputation" of their company will have all of the personal information that WebDiscover has collected about them disclosed to any party at their discretion.
+"If we determine, in our sole discretion, that you have engaged in conduct which might be considered, unlawful, fraudulent, or which might harm or damage the reputation or standing of WebDiscover Media with either the general public or with a business partner or potential business partner of WebDiscover Media, we reserve the right to release your Personal Information to such persons or third parties as we consider necessary in order to prevent you from causing injury to, or otherwise injuring or interfering, now or in the future, with WebDiscover Media' rights, property or operations or otherwise the rights, property or operations of anyone else who could be harmed by such conduct."[1]
+Which is basically threatening their users that they will use the information they collect to dox anyone who says bad things about their software. This is possibly the most anti-user statement that I have read in a privacy policy.
+When WebDiscover is started, it will begin making requests to ec2-54-191-159-75.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
This is presumably how it collects a lot of the personal information about its users. This was discovered using Microsoft Network Monitor 3.4.
+1. + WebDiscover Privacy Policy + [web.archive.org] + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org]
+2. + WebDiscover removal instructions + [archive.is] + [ghostarchive.org] +
+This article was last edited on 8/4/2018
+If you want to contribute to this website, you can always make a pull request.
+All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted.
+
+
1.
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+ [ghostarchive.org]
[web.archive.org]
[archive.is]
1.
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- [archive.li]
+ [archive.li]
+ [ghostarchive.org]
+
2.
Request to Investigate Google’s YouTube Online Service...
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+ [web.archive.org]
+
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Stop YouTube tracking when signed out
[web.archive.org]
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+ [archive.fo]
+ [ghostarchive.org]
+
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Youtube Android App Permissions
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+ [web.archive.org]
+ [ghostarchive.org]
+
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com.google.firebase.analytics
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+ [archive.is]
+ [ghostarchive.org]
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@swack on Twitter
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+ [archive.is]
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+ [web.archive.org]
+ [ghostarchive.org]
+
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How does YouTube know what I've been watching?
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+ [web.archive.org]
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+Audience: General, people who stumble upon gnu.org
+ 1924+/-395 words english
+ 1028+/-395 words instead?
+ 755 words rahisibhasha
+ stab at french
+Version: 2019-05-29
+
+
+#########################################
+
+大云墙 (Dà Yún qiáng)
+大きな雲壁 (Ookina Kumo kabe)
+The Great Cloudwall
+
+by Jeff Cliff
+
+essistensa una reason you go to
+
+#########################################
+
+
+
+There is a reason that none of your favourite work has appeared on Tor since early 2016[15].
+That reason has lead to the discovery of a threat to the operation of the World Wide Web.
+
+Prerequisites:
+- The JavaScript Trap[47]
+- Understanding that Google is not to be trusted[45][46]
+- Nick Szabo: "Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes"[44][48]
+
+Cloudflare is a network service for turing tests its users use against visitors, which means that it frustrates attempts
+by users of its users to develop software to interact with their websites[3].
+This might seem strange at first - why would you need a program to access a web resource?
+But there's many things that work on the web like this, including RSS, streaming, chat, podcasts, and anti-virus definitions[57][58] which
+are completely broken by a CAPTCHA appearing mid stream[11].
+"We humans don't make HTTP requests, our machines to do it for us."
+This makes clear what is really being tested here - whether or not you have the right software stack in between you and
+Cloudflare.
+
+This is not hypothetical: Cloudflare is currently attempting to dictate which browsers users of their "protected"
+websites may use[60].
+
+{{expand}}
+
+Your right to use Free Software in this stack is at risk and could disappear at any moment.
+
+It also is extracting free labor from website users[35], in effect tricking humans into acting like robots in order to
+pass a test designed to see whether or not they are a robot. Worse, this labor is being used to train[62] Google's artificial intelligence, a very
+poor candidate for "friendly AI"[36]. Given unfriendly AI is an existential[43] risk[42] to mankind, avoiding this
+should be among the highest of priorities.
+
+This software stack includes human language: the CAPTCHAs are in English, leaving non-English speakers around the world
+at a disadvantage[13]. Attempts to fix this are bound by the fact that they also leak language information to
+Cloudflare[21].
+
+Furthermore, they use Google's reCaptcha for their turing test/"proof you are a human" challenge and Google is known as a part of NSA's PRISM surveillance project so they expose their website visitor's data to PRISM data collection.
+
+On its own, this is terrible bad but it's also worth pointing out how the reCAPTCHAs work. It isn't by whether or not you
+click on the correct icon (though that is a factor too) but also collect:
+
+> mouse movement, its slightness and straightness
+> page scrolls
+> time intervals between browser events
+> keystrokes
+> click location history tied to user fingerprint
+> device information
+> All these criteria are stored in the browser’s cookie and are processed by Google’s servers
+> It should be emphasized that there is DARPA technology to identify people by mouse movements and typing
+[23]
+
+This collection of data is likely illegal in regions where privacy is taken seriously (like the EU)[24].
+
+It is frustrating even when it works because you have to fill out 20 captchas on the off-chance that you succeed one time in
+twenty. So this is 95% censorship and 5% wasting users' time[5].
+
+More important, though, is that it starts to form a ratchet for web browser technology; the captchas are upgraded all the
+time and if you use an older browser, you risk being left behind even when it works.
+
+
+*How Cloudflare Threatens You*
+
+"When you fetch a page from a website that is served from Cloudflare, JavaScript has been injected on-the-fly into that
+page by Cloudflare. And they also plant a cookie that brands your browser with a globally-unique ID. This happens even if
+the website is using SSL and shows a cute little padlock in your browser" [10]
+
+- Cloudflare tracks you
+Even if your traffic is protected from onlookers, Cloudflare itself can see your traffic[6] because they are a MITM[14][31].
+In addition, if Cloudflare[53] has intercepted your traffic(MITM), so has the NSA[33].
+"If a site uses Cloudflare, then the browser lock icon is a false promise."[14]
+"The short version, a rhetorical question: Would you trust a key escrow regime, in which an “authorized” entity was
+entrusted with the potential to decrypt all communications at will? If not, why would you trust a de facto mass decryption
+chokepoint at which many communications are actually decrypted?"[34]
+In other words,
+
+- They are in a position to track, tap, and link Internet activity across a wide range of sites. [14]
+
+- Cloudflare frustrates accessibility efforts[25][27][36]:
+"CAPTCHA remains the most problematic item indicated by respondents"
+Cloudflare is one of the largest, if not the largest source of unconsensual CAPTCHAS, making them quite possibly the
+biggest impediment in accessibility efforts worldwide.
+
+- Cloudflare makes using Tor frustrating by making efforts to become anonymous more difficult and making it more likely
+that people will use non-Tor connections for some or all of their web browsing. The problem is getting worse with time.
+[13]
+
+- It's not just Tor[19] but Tor users are the biggest group of people who've noticed it and are organizing against it so
+far.
+
+- In particular, the model of Project Honeypot depends on one IPv4 address, meaning one person. As IPv4 addresses become
+scarce, more and more ISPs (and whole countries[22]) are forced to use higher and higher levels of NAT. The result is that
+the kinds of treatment of Tor users by Cloudflare starts to be not just for Tor, but for all web users. "Tor is just being
+slightly ahead of what the IPv4 Internet is going to look like pretty soon."
+The next time a large group wakes up, millions of websites might be down (including critical ones) across a whole
+continent. This has actually happened already. [49]
+
+"It was made clear in the Snowden leaks that GCHQ, the NSA, etc. would like people to stop using Tor so I am sure they are
+very happy to see CF make general web browsing difficult and frustrating for ordinary users." [12]
+
+- Worse, Cloudflare makes using Tor *dangerous* because enabling JavaScript and images to deal with their system makes it
+likely that some people will enable JavaScript and images on other websites, which, even if Cloudflare wasn't threatening
+them, would. [9]
+
+- Cloudflare is capable of tracking users of its websites, and initial looks into its JavaScript/CAPTCHA seems to bear out
+that they are doing so.
+
+- Cloudflare can target individual users with JavaScript malware; since you typically wind up enabling their JavaScript
+to use websites, you fall into their trap. Because they track users, are giving, individualised code, and work directly
+with the US government/DHS, there's no reason why they can't tailor attacks to specific users.
+
+- Even if they aren't doing it yet, they are at any point one US government administration, one vulture capital funding
+purchase[26], or one internally rogue element away from executing JavaScript code on hundreds of millions of people's
+computers a "highly attractive" target[7] with no oversight. The code CAPTCHA itself protects attempts to detect such
+things from happening.
+
+- The way that Cloudflare is constructed means that even by accident, billions of people can be analyzed by their
+government[51] and have their access limited or completely cut off at the government's whim.
+
+*Background : How Cloudflare threatens the web*
+
+- Cloudflare is a MITM for the whole web
+
+- As of 3 years ago 10% of the top 25,000 websites used Cloudflare[2]
+- A billion people in china are restricted by the Great Firewall[8]. Anyone who goes so far as to circumvent that must then
+deal with the "Great Cloudwall" for accessing the open internet.
+
+- This is not just an individual problem, but fundamentally threatens the ecosystem of the web.
+Cloudflare is breaking the open internet one site at a time. The web is massively resilient - we can do without Stack
+Overflow, GNU.org or even Google but when a significant enough portion of websites use a single provider, there starts to
+be a systematic risk that if that single provider goes down, all of the websites behind it will be inaccessible. Worse, you
+won't be allowed to access it unless you have the right kind of US government approved credential, contingent, perhaps, on
+running software only they approve of.
+
+It is becoming a single point of failure for the internet. [39]
+
+Right now, there are alternative sources for, for example, the US constitution[17]. It is not unthinkable that Cloudflare
+is getting big enough to threaten even that.
+
+{FIX ME - make section clearer}
+"A.1 sometimes there are necessary websites for some degree of necessary. Government websites, public service, etc. How
+long until those are behind the "Great Cloudwall"?
+B: Not long. Our service is competitive and convenient. If public service websites choose to use our service for awesome
+DDoS protection, it's their choice."[36]
+
+- Cloudflare has already started down the slippery slope[52] of censoring websites. If they didn't have a stranglehold on
+people accessing the internet, it would not be a problem. They are big enough that censorship from Cloudflare is starting
+to be a systematic exclusion from the political process.
+
+"Cloudflare is perfect: it can implement censorship on the fly without anyone getting wise to it!"[40]
+
+- DNS[39]: given that they have become so systematically powerful, the next step to cementing their power is to attack
+DNS. Their 1.1.1.1 DNS server, like Google's 8.8.8.8, is marketed to people so that Cloudflare will still be able to see
+you're going to them even if you don't interact with websites "protected" by them. It gives them even more data to track you
+with.
+
+*Background : Where does Cloudflare come from?*
+
+Cloudflare comes from a project called "Project Honey Pot"[61], originally intended to track online fraud and abuse.
+
+"What was Project Honey Pot?
+'A service that positions itself as some kind of a grassroot-y anti-spam registry, but in reality seems to be a pro-
+corporate law enforcement tool with the specific aim of entrapping and prosecuting spammers/phishing scammers in a way
+that’s friendly to the marketing industry.'"
+
+The US Department of Homeland Security approached the developers in 2007-8[1][36] for access to their data and they have
+been working with the US government[54] and law enforcement ever since[1].
+
+On HTTP GET requests:
+
+Cloudflare has a history of shutting down open DNS and open NTP servers.
+
+"It would be great if they allowed GET requests - for example - such requests should not and generally do not modify server
+side content. They do not do this - this breaks the web in so many ways, it is incredible. Using wget with Tor on a website
+hosted by CF is... a disaster. Using Tor Browser with it - much the same. These requests should be idempotent according to
+spec, I believe."
+
+{FIX ME - "critical of it"?}
+Cloudflare has a history of closing tickets that are critical of it without actually resolving the issue[29][30][32]
+
+"Cloudflare is based in a country with secret courts, secret police, and secret prisons that are above the law - and this
+secret government has characterized Cloudflare's data as extremely valuable"[28]
+"The CEO says, "Cloudflare's strength lies in the DATA it collects -- not in its CODE.'"[28]
+"The U.S. federal government is a Cloudflare customer."[28]
+"Cloudflare has never stated that a government agency did not install wiretapping equipment or software on the same
+premises as a Cloudflare server."[28]
+"Cloudflare has never indicated that the architecture of its content distribution network is resistant to warrantless
+mass surveillance."[28]
+"Cloudflare has given the Chinese government unprecedented censorship capability."[28]
+"Cloudflare has no intention to shut down as Lavabit did in order to protect the user from unlawful surveillance."[28]
+"Some Cloudflare customers are paying over 1 million dollars per year for an undisclosed service."[28]
+
+*"But Cloudflare is really necessary, the web is a nasty place"*
+
+- The more of the web is held within Cloudflare, the more pressure will be on websites not behind Cloudflare
+- As of 2016, by Cloudflare's own data, Tor was not as bad as normal internet connections.
+- People: "But we need Cloudflare to protect us from DDoS.”
+ Cloudflare: "That’s a nice site you have there. It would be a shame, such a shame, if anything happened to it. Why don’t
+ you let us decrypt all your TLS sessions[59] so we can protect you?"[14]
+
+*I heard Cloudflare is working with Tor and all is good now?*
+
+- Just because you can't see the problem doesn't mean it's not there.
+
+- This is not true. Their websites still CAPTCHA their users, same as ever, and news agencies across the political spectrum
+screwed up stories about how the 'problem is fixed'. [18]
+
+- It's actually worse, though[17], if we couldn't see it[60] - it was easy to get a lot of riled up Tor users to understand
+that Cloudflare was their adversary. It's a lot harder to convince people who are not blocked from their websites, today,
+why giving systematic control over the world wide web might be a bad thing tomorrow.
+
+"Right now, Cloudflare says it monitors nearly 1/5 of all Internet visits. An astounding claim for a company most people
+haven’t even heard of"[40]
+
+- But they are now doing more to track users and threaten the anonymity of Tor users.
+
+- Cloudflare is one of a couple of large network providers that are capturing the vast majority of digital communications,
+effectively creating private networks the size of the modern internet that are competitive with and not subject to the
+same kinds of scrutiny and regulation as the internet[58].
+
+*What if we shut down Cloudflare and migrate all websites out of them?*
+
+We're probably going to have the same problem with another company very soon. Just as when suddenly Microsoft no longer had
+a monopoly on software, we didn't get rid of the problem of proprietary software, there's a couple of problems that, if we
+don't solve them, something like Cloudflare is roughly inevitable as a consequence:
+
+*Cloudflare DNS*
+
+"DNS[50] is around, servers are insecure, proper end-to-end crypto isn't the norm hence MITM goes unnoticed, anonymity is an edge case, routing lacks built-in resiliency to disruption, we're always going to have actors building a business model around cobbling together superficial, overapproximating mitigations."[20]
+
+*Mozilla and Cloudflare*
+
+"At least for browsing with Firefox, because Mozilla has partnered up with Cloudflare and will resolve the domain names
+from the application itself via a DNS server from Cloudflare based in the United States. Cloudflare will then be able to
+read everyone's DNS requests."
+Sharing DNS requests with Cloudflare represents mozilla having a security hole, straight to the Cloudflare (and probably:
+the NSA).
+
+*What can you do?*
+
+Learn more about Cloudflare and make sure the people around you know about Cloudflare. Use Tor by default to be more
+exposed to the blocks. Go to the anti-Cloudflare collaboration repository[41] and make sure websites you use aren't
+"protected", and if they are, contact the people who run the website requesting that they no longer use Cloudflare. Get
+involved!
+
+
+References
+
+[1] crimeflare. Is CloudFlare a honey pot? https://web.archive.org/web/20170721161127/http://www.crimeflare.us/honeypot.html
+[2] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:15
+[3] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:21
+[5] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:28
+[6] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:30
+[7] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:32
+[8] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/great-firewall-of-china
+[9] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:51
+[10] crimeflare. Is CloudFlare a honey pot? https://web.archive.org/web/20170721161127/http://www.crimeflare.us/honeypot.html
+[11] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:59
+[12] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:66
+[13] mikeperry. The Trouble with CloudFlare. https://blog.torproject.org/trouble-cloudflare
+[14] nullius. Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24351#comment:8
+[15] Unknown. Google+ https://plus.google.com/105395547687614433866/posts/G9nnQBnLtjp
+[16] Unknown. Google+ https://plus.google.com/105395547687614433866/posts/XnQryQ7hR9G
+[17] msmach. Cloudflare Ends CAPTCHAs For Tor Users https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12641622&cid=57348584
+[18] msmach. Cloudflare Ends CAPTCHAs For Tor Users https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12641622&cid=57388544
+[19] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:90
+[20] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:112
+[21] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:132
+[22] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:141
+[23] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:147
+[24] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:160
+[25] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:175
+[26] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:183
+[27] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:231
+[28] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:236
+[29] ioerror. Issues with corporate censorship and mass surveillance. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18361#comment:255
+[30] gk. Cloudflare breaks loading the chat. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23141
+[31] nullius. Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24351#comment:20
+[32] nullius. Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24351#comment:44
+[33] nullius. Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24351#comment:52
+[34] nullius. Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24351#comment:60
+[35] nullius. Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24321#comment:13
+[36] Anonymous. Cloudflare philosophy. https://codeberg.org/crimeflare/cloudflare-tor/src/master/cloudflare-philosophy.md
+[37] Peter O'Shaughnessy. Screen Reader User Survey Results #7. https://toot.cafe/@peter/99398584471715976
+[39] ungeich. A new feature in Firefox https://blog.ungleich.ch/en-us/cms/blog/2018/08/04/mozillas-new-dns-resolution-is-dangerous/
+[40] Yasha Levine. iSucker: Big Brother Internet Culture http://exiledonline.com/isucker-big-brother-internet-culture/
+[41] Anonymous. The Great Cloudwall. http://codeberg.org/crimeflare/cloudflare-tor
+[42] lesswrong wiki. Unfriendly artificial intelligence https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Unfriendly_artificial_intelligence
+[43] Ben Harack. What is an existential risk? https://www.visionofearth.org/future-of-humanity/existential-risks/what-is-an-existential-risk/
+[44] Nick Szabo. Twitter http://twitter.com/nickszabo4
+[45] FSF. Google's Software is Malware https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-google.en.html
+[46] Richard Stallman. Reasons not to use Google https://stallman.org/google.html
+[47] Richard Stallman. The JavaScript Trap https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
+[48] Nick Szabo. Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes. 2001. https://nakamotoinstitute.org/trusted-third-parties
+[49] slashgeek. CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me) https://www.slashgeek.net/2016/05/17/cloudflare-is-ruining-the-internet-for-me/
+[50] Hamid Sarfraz. How likely is it that CloudFlare is an NSA operation? https://www.quora.com/How-likely-is-it-that-CloudFlare-is-an-NSA-operation/answer/Hamid-Sarfraz
+[51] Karthik Balakrishnan. Airtel is sniffing and censoring CloudFlare’s traffic in India and CloudFlare doesn’t even know it. https://medium.com/@karthikb351/airtel-is-sniffing-and-censoring-cloudflares-traffic-in-india-and-they-don-t-even-know-it-90935f7f6d98
+[52] http://pleroma.oniichanylo2tsi4.onion/notice/1563
+[53] StopMITMInt. Add an option to stop trusting Cloudflare certificate https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/issues/1743#issuecomment-351555735
+[54] goody2shoes. Block Global Active Adversary Cloudflare https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2018-January/043889.html
+[55] EFF. The Crypto Wars https://www.eff.org/document/crypto-wars
+[56] http://forums.clamwin.com/viewtopic.php?t=4915
+[57] November 2018 Archives by thread http://lists.clamav.net/pipermail/clamav-users/2018-November/thread.html
+[58] https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/20181218/Documents/Geoff_Huston_Presentation.pdf
+[59] Thorin-Oakenpants. let's talk about our little buddy cloudflare. https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/issues/310#issuecomment-351913412
+[60] ghost. What do you think about Cloudflare? https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/374#issuecomment-460413259
+[61] Unspam Technologies, Inc. https://projecthoneypot.org/
+[62] TechRader. Captcha if you can: how you’ve been training AI for years without realising it https://www.techradar.com/news/captcha-if-you-can-how-youve-been-training-ai-for-years-without-realising-it
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The goal of this website is to classify spyware programs, so that users can be more aware that they are installing spyware.
-Many "everyday" applications are actually spyware. We take an expansive and strict stance on what constitutes spyware. We define spyware as anything that includes telemetry, phoning home, automatic updates or is listening in without user knowledge/consent.
-This website contains articles on popular programs and explaining the spyware features found in them, so that potential users can be aware of the information they may be giving away by downloading or using spyware, using easy to understand ratings, detailed explanations, and proof, of how features of these programs can spy on the user.
+Many "everyday" applications are actually spyware. We take an expansive and strict stance on what constitutes spyware. We define spyware as anything that includes telemetry, phoning home, automatic updates or is listening in without the user's knowledge or consent.
+This website contains articles on popular programs with explanations of the spyware features found in them. Included are easy to understand ratings, detailed explanations, and proof, of how features of these programs can spy on the user.
*This mirror uses Cloudflare. If you want to learn more about it, you can go here. The repository the link provides is a work in progress aiming to be more professional-like. However, it should give you a general idea on potential issues with Cloudflare.
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If you want to contribute to this website, you can always make a pull request.
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+This website has a git repo. A lot of the contributors to this site are active here on xmpp.
Spyware Watchdog was maintained and contributed to by The Founder of the Site between Nov 22nd, 2017 and May 10th, 2019. After which the site was put on hiatus for a while, before being handed over to Digdeeper in early 2020. It was then transferred to a git repository!
People who have helped maintain this website:
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+The Founder of the Site, digdeeper, metheperson, qorg11, and another individual who does not wish to be named here
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