| Hi,
Disclaimer: I work for Cliqz. Thank you the questions, we are always looking for constructive feedback on and off HN. 1. These random values are used for grouping partial queries together, and they reset when you press enter or start a new query.
Source code on how it's generated: https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-core/blob/master/module...
We actually take one additional precaution of using crypto random and not plain Math.random(), which could potentially be used to link multiple sessions together. 2. There is no feature to disable auto-suggest. But I will pass your feedback to the team. 3. No there is no shared ownership, we don't have access to their servers. We also do additional encryption with bucketing on the payload sizes that we route through foxyProxy, so that the proxy provider cannot learn anything about the content of the message. We will have a blogpost explaining this on Wednesday - 4th December. Also, we are looking to add an option, where user can choose their own proxy provider too. 4. There are two parts:
a. You can select the option from Control Center (Q menu) icon in the toolbar -> search -> search via proxy. (Now the calls should go through FoxyProxy)
b. All calls to api.cliqz.com go through proxy when in private mode.
The only reason it's not default is latency. As to what goes through FoxyProxy by default is: all Human Web data. Once again, we appreciate you looking into details, and please keep digging, we would be happy to answer, improve our documentation and if there are bugs specially related to privacy and security they are on our uttermost priority. |