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by dessant
2380 days ago
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We appreciate your openness about how you collect data, but that's still not enough because literally every other advertising company is deceptive when they talk about privacy. The openness must be paired with privacy that is guaranteed under all circumstances, and the most common way to achieve that would be to route the anonymized data through Tor. Your search engine being also available on Tor has nothing to do with data collection by Cliqz on other sites. Your search engine website is not the avenue through which the Cliqz browser and extension collects data as you browse the web, I'm confused why would you even bring it up. |
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Disclaimer: I work for Cliqz.
Would be really interesting to know your concerns with FoxyProxy.FoxyProxy is legally bound to not log the IP or share it.
From the HPN protocol's perspective, data can be routed via any trusted party - in our case it's FoxyProxy.
Right now, there is no way to configure this in the Browser, but should be doable. It's actually one of the motivations to move to the newer version of HPN[1].
We do agree that sending data through Tor network is the gold standard for anonymity.
- We did a lot of work on getting Tor running in Cliqz browsers. It's a hard problem but definitely do-able, something we might pursue again in future[2]. - We also have experimented with WebAssembly version of Tor client to make it compatible for web extension[3].
Having the ability to use the Tor network in Cliqz products is also good, because we can actually leverage the anonymity guarantees by sending data via .onion services. You can also check more details under evaluation section of the paper[4].
In case you wish to check the network traffic you can also check the debugging section[5].
References:
1. https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-04/human-web-proxy-network... 2. https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-f/commit/12fcef8479d9c3... 3. https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-f/commit/12fcef8479d9c3... 4. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.07927.pdf 5. https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-03/human-web-collecting-da...