In other words, what browser do you use on weekdays?
Is it a lazy browser that comes with it, a niche and easy-to-use "Quark" and "Firefox", or the "UC Browser" and "360 Browser" produced by traditional old factories?
The reason why Brother Ji suddenly asked that.
It's because ah, I found a big melon --
On the eve of 315, the relevant departments launched a report on "the collection of personal information by browser apps".
This time, 9 browser apps that are well known to women and children were directly extracted.
Like the "quark", "Firefox", "UC", "360" we mentioned at the beginning, they are impressively listed.
In addition, Huawei Xiaomi's own browser, "Sogou Browser", "QQ Browser"... I was also fortunate enough to be a participant in this test.
Although the collection of personal information by browsers is already a well-known industry phenomenon.
But Brother Jie didn't expect it.
Just the results of the first round of tests already made my scalp tingle...
Access Rights
I'm afraid you won't believe it.
It is the usual control of launching the App, for this group of browsers, it is tantamount to the existence of school after school and canteen opening.
Various permissions, such as location, device, clipboard, album, application list, etc., will be visible at a glance with the moment the app is officially launched.
In a simple "launch an app" test.
"Wukong Browser", successfully won the championship with the most types of permissions, and the moment it launched the app, it won the 5 types of permissions of our mobile phone.
Although the 5 categories of "Goku" are indeed more than the only two or three categories of others.
But this kind of wide-net-casting visit where dragonflies point water and pinch water meet...
For people like Brother Ji, who have been in the battlefield for a long time, they can't resist the "UC Browser" that wins with frequency, and it must be shocking——
That's right, 68 location permission access, but also directly show me the machine brother cry.
Seriously, I grew so big, and it was the first time I found that people other than my parents cared so much about my safety and my peace.
Although in the words of high emotional intelligence, this is called optimizing the user experience and providing special services.
But in order to optimize the user experience, he actually did this, even did not hesitate to scan me 68 times...
But "UC" its user experience does not seem to be much better.
Ah yes, friends may not have any concept of this 68 ha, I will put a full picture for everyone Kangkang.
Anyway, the other 8 apps all add up, which is not as many as the number of "UC" visits in one time.
By the way, Brother Ji also framed some "excellent results".
Friends can click on the big picture and taste it slowly~
To be honest, Brother Ji has always felt that this information is simply to obtain and update the weather and local hot news.
It has to be like this.
The subsequent "Test 2" and "Test 3" are the scenarios when searching for information and accessing information, respectively.
Here, it's a little bit unremarkable.
The machine brother will not go into much detail, anyway, it is still "location permission", "device information" these old problems mentioned above.
All of the above.
All happen in our ordinary use cases of opening apps, searching for content, and accessing information.
If the pilots think that we can just leave them in the background and we will be done...
Then, you can underestimate the rogue level of these browser apps.
Silence in the background
In addition to opening the App, they call the permissions of our mobile.
These browsers, even the silence in the background, so the opportunity to not talk about martial virtue has been firmly grasped.
"Location permission", "Application list", "Device information"... Permissions that were previously called at startup, even if placed in the background, will still be secretly called and accessed.
Don't ask, ask, it's voyeurism.
Congratulations to "UC", "360" and "Wukong" for re-emerging as the most beautiful boys in the app.
To say that the most excessive of this wave has to be "Wukong Browser".
I thought that if I didn't call out of the foreground, I could keep the clipboard safe, but it turned out that it was silent in the background and could be accessed secretly...
Basically, the word "voyeur" was written on the face.
To be honest, Brother Ji personally believes that the "clipboard" is a more serious and sensitive existence than "location information".
When I think of our clipboard, there will be bank cards, ID numbers, passwords and other major information, and then they ...
Hey, I don't dare to think about it.
Personal Information Upload
After chatting about the visit, the next thing is to talk about uploading.
Since there is a front, the front car that is too much to obtain permission is a foreshadowing and an appetizer.
Then "UC Browser" won the crown, which can only be said to be expected and deserved.
From latitude and longitude, Wi-Fi address, Android ID...
From installed apps, screenshot information in apps...
All of them are uploaded to UC's servers.
Without your consent, there is no time for you to pass.
Ahem, UC you're really tortured.
Na~ The full list is as follows.
As for the next, the background silently uploads data...
And, silently uploaded traffic data...
Forget it, the machine brother behind doesn't want to say it.
In a word, talk about the sun -
"UC Browser" wins numbness
To be honest, "UC Browser" was not pulled out and exposed to the sun this time.
Brother Ji vaguely remembers that as early as 2021.
"UC Browser" and "QQ Input Method", "Ink Weather" and other apps have been criticized by relevant departments.
It's a coincidence.
At that time, the reason why it was picked up and named was precisely because "UC Browser" involved many problems such as illegal collection of personal information and excessive requests for mobile phone permissions.
Looking at this history continuously, it can't help but make people wonder what year it is.
Not only that, but just a month after being named.
315 gala in 2021.
"UC Browser" has once again "become popular" because it involves false medical advertisements for unqualified companies.
It was removed from the shelves that day, and it was thoroughly investigated that night.
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You say, with such rich experience in punishment, why does UC still put this mistake on hold?
Probably, as netizens say.
Good scar, forget about the pain.
Fortunately, as consumers pay more attention to privacy, mobile phone manufacturers have introduced more and more comprehensive privacy protection measures.
This makes us today, in the face of this excessive privacy collection, we also have a certain amount of "no" capital.
It doesn't matter if you can update the weather, local news push is not recommended.
Directly in the phone, turn off the location permission completely.
No matter how bad it is, when encountering some apps that cannot be used when the permission is closed, the vast majority of domestic mobile phones now also have false identities and blank IDs to circumvent.
As for what clipboard, X password jump...
Although practical is very practical.
But Brother has always adhered to the principle of "no privacy for convenience".
So, I don't open it anyway.
Then again.
These are just our "legitimate defense" in the face of rogue apps, and in the final analysis, they are still self-protection behaviors.
Although it is said, "the best defense is the attack".
But attack, how difficult it is.
If you want to eradicate this gang of rogue apps, it is obviously not enough to rely on mobile phone manufacturers and our personal strength.
Flyers don't need to be discouraged.
If the power of the individual is too humble to produce a qualitative change.
Spicy, I don't need to, is it also a viable solution?
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