Has anyone else had their Dolphin Browser hijacked?

[jbenham]

This happened to my wife's Dolphin browser too. She uses it extensively. I use mostly Chrome, but Dolphin works fine on my tablet. So not everyone is affected?

 

[Catman51]

They may have fixed it, but I lost all faith in Dolphin. Switched to Chrome.

 

[electricpete]

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I'm looking at Lightning.

+ 1 for lightning browser:

• OPEN SOURCE
• Fast (faster than Firefox, similar to chrome)
• Inverted mode gives white text on black background to save juice on amoled devices (unlike chrome which has no inverted mode)
  • settings / advanced / rendering mode / inverted
    
  • Doesn't invert most photos... they look normal the way you want them to
  • It does render photos initially inverted for a brief time and then makes a 2nd pass to uninvert them... so they might look odd for just a moment.
  • A few photos and videos get messed up. In that case I go to another browser or switch settings
• Free version available
• Ad blocking in the pro version... well worth a few bucks imo
• The adblocking and inversion features don't slow it, unlike firefox which seems to get slower as you add addons.
• A few minor downsides
  • Bookmarks are not sync'd outside the device (but you can export/import bookmarks)
  • Arranging your bookmarks into folders is slightly clunky...takes some getting used to.

 

[electricpete]

I just don't use "free" Chinese web browsers.

Just to be clear, you're saying Dolphin is programmed in China?

A few years ago Dolphin was caught passing all visited URL's unencrypted to a remote server. After it was publicized that quickly stopped, but I think if they have intention to gather that info they can pass it encrypted and no-one will be able to know what info they're sending.

 

[mikedt]

Yeh, it's definitely from a Beijing company. And it's monetized by the information they can get and sold to third-parties. Same with Cheetah Mobile, Qihoo 360, Boat, Baidu.