It enjoys the same speed and reliability provided by the underlying blink engine as Google Chrome. Now both Google and Slimjet have access to your search history.Slimjet is built on top of the Chromium open-source project on which Google Chrome is also based. Obviously you can tell that any kind of service to sync your search history "in the cloud" is a privacy nightmare. There are no other features or requests made that would require large amounts of data to be sent to an external server in this way, so by process of elimination this is my theory as to how it's implemented. This is probably how they upload all of your search history and bookmarks into their cloud services, which seem to be provided by Google. "CLOUD SYNC OF BOOKMARK & DATA" that is advertised on Slimjet's website. It's unclear what this is for specifically but this is probably being done to implement the Personal information was censored from these images. These requests are sent between Slimjet and a Google server, with confirmation from Process Monitor and MITMproxy: When you start Slimjet, it will begin using the BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) which is designed to use spare bandwidth to transfer Using the Microsoft BITS service to upload search history to Google servers Slimjet claims to collect "some anonymous feature usage statistics information", and claims not to record your IP or sell that information At the very least when the search engine is changed toĪn alternative like DuckDuckGo the requests to fpseek stop.
So, it looks like your searches are sent to two advertising companies instead of just one.
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".maintain and improve the quality and operation of the Software & Services, including, monitoring viewability of and interaction with advertisements, search results and other products and services provided by Company." With advertisements and it says that it uses information it collects about its users to:
Fpseek itself is a company that seems to be tracking how users interact This is a uniquely badĭefault search engine because of how much information it leaks out. So, not only are you sharing everything with Microsoft, now there is another company looking at all of your searches. Whenever you search something using the default search engine, requests are sent to both Bing and fpseek. "served from " which means that not only are you exposing your information to Bing, this is also being logged by fpseek, which The default search engine is Bing, which sells your information to advertisers. Maybe it sends information through some kind of Google web service? So, it must be phoning home as well as sending information to Google. Even though, it claims to collect information about its users for internal usage. What's kind of surprising is that it didn't seem to connect to any servers explicitly operated by FlashPeak when I was testing it. It's still got a lot of Google's spyware in it, if it's still connecting to so many Google services. The moment I turn it on with MITMproxy running, I am greeted with this: In this way, Slimjet manages to implement all of the spyware that is found in browsers like Google Chrome, except instead of one company having this information, it's split up among several companies.Įven though on its site, FlashPeak claims that: "Slimjet doesn't send any usage data back to Google like Chrome." Slimjet claims to be concerned about privacy but ultimately retains just about all of the spyware features found in Google Chrome, as well as additional spyware added on by FlashPoint. Slimjet is constantly sending information to google and connecting to google Slimjet's website claims that it is very committed to user privacy, and that it blocks Google tracking, unlike Google Chrome. Slimjet is a clone of the SlimBrowser web browser from FlashPeak that uses the Chromium as a base.
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