Browzar not so good after all
Browzer was widely reported as a web browser that takes privacy and security serious. It seems most authors who "tested" Browzer did not do their homeworks and parroted instead what the developers of Browzer were claiming. The first thing that strikes me as odd is that Browzer is not really a new web browser, but simply an add on of the Internet Explorer by Microsoft. It uses the same engine and identifies itself as Internet Explorer.
The homepage of Browzer will be the starting page of it from now on, with no way of changing that setting. Not a really good feature, don't you think? The search feature uses Overture, a well known pay per click search engine, to generate revenue for the developers it seems. What about privacy? Do they live up to that promise or is this also not what they want us to believe it is?
Do we have more privacy when surfing with Browzar? The answer is a simple no, we do not. Browzer supports Active X, supports cookies, sends all the information every web browser sends (like os, version etc). Someone from Slashdot tested it with Gmail from Google and found out that he was still logged into his gmail account after closing and reopening Browzer. Not really private is it?
Update: The latest version of Browzer is 2.0, it is available on the project website, and still advertised as a browser that is not saving data. While it may be that the developers have improved the browser in this regard, I'd suggest to anyone wanting to try the browser to run it in a test environment first to make sure the claims can now be verified with tests. On the positive side of things, the browser is portable and starts up really fast.
Update 2: The web browser has not received an update after version 2.0 was released in December 2008. It appears that the browser is in fact abandoned and no longer maintained. I suggest you use private browsing modes which all modern browsers support for activities on the Internet that you want to keep private.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.