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<title>Falkon — Spyware Watchdog</title>
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<img src="../images/falkon_logo.png" alt="falkon Logo">
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<h1>Falkon</h1>
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Falkon is a KDE web browser using QtWebEngine rendering engine, previously known as QupZilla.
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<h2>Spyware Level: <font color=lightgreen>Probably Not Spyware</font></h2>
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When another contributor tested this browser on Linux, it made <font color=lime><b>no unsolicited connections.</b></font> When I ran it on Windows, it connected to
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a domain unrelated to the homepage (DuckDuckGo). But, i'm not sure what it was for, and it wasn't reproduced on Linux. This browser is probably fine, but
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you should run your own tests and email me about what you found or didn't find.
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<h3>Phoning Home?</h3>
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On the first run of Falkon, using the 32-bit Windows version, it connected to these addresses, even though I was on its homepage, which seems to be
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locally stored because it does not create any requests when I go to it normally. I don't know what these are for.
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Maybe it's a form of phoning home? The first IP is for the domain: github.map.fastly.net which seems to be part of a CDN.
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<img class="screenshot" src="../images/falkon_firstrun.png" alt="Is Falkon phoning home?">
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This article was last edited on 8/24/2018
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If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), contact us on XMPP over in spyware@conference.nuegia.net, or visit us at the git repo on <a href="https://codeberg.org/TheShadow/SpywareWatchdog">Codeberg</a>. All contributions must be licensed under the CC0 license to be accepted.
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