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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
Wait, isn't this what Opera mini does already? Were the congressmen living under a rock all these years?
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It's been doing it for years, Opera are also very open about the security and advise people to only use the Mini browser for confidential stuff as it does break end to end encryption, the mode can be disabled in the Mobile and Desktop versions (where it's not even remotely default, and is not used with SSL).
I think the complaint is more about forcing defaults on people - it's the whole cloud issue at play and most people are too ignorant to accept that
when the first big security fiasco goes down, it's going to be spectacular, and forcing unwitting people to use a tech that exposes them - that's a bit of a problem. People also like to think their fave company is somehow their friend, "Google didn't meeeean to collect all that wifi data". I guess it'll also be a mistake that they collected and stored all of your visited urls linked to your personal data. I guess the guy that finds a dump of that in 3 years and uploads it somewhere nice - well he's now public enemy #1?
The same could be said about all the analytics crap and the rest of it - the point is still valid imho, ground rules need to be set down that arnt overly direct - see how Google uses your lovely html5 persistent storage to get around cookie laws, how most large companies release toolbars which are essentially the malware - and now entire browsers :3.
So yeah - you should be aware of exactly what is kept, how and where it is kept for what duration, duplication etc. EULAs arn't exactly a good way of conveying that... or being legally binding.