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Xiaomi it is one of the mobile phone brands most famous in the world. In Italy in recent years it has made its way with offers and excellent cell phones in a medium-low range. She even managed to open some real ones physical stores in various regions of Italy. They are called Mi Store. According to a recent report of cybersecurity, however, The Browsers by Xiaomi is not the best for privacy.
What exactly are we talking about? AND what is a Browsers? Let's start with the basics: a Browsers and the program you use to browse. For Android we have already talked about our favorites which are Firefox Preview And DuckDuckGo Privacy Browsers. Xiaomi cell phones are sold with pre-installed one of them Browsers. It can be present Me Browsers Pro or Mint Browsers. We can easily find both on the Google Play Store and they have over 15 million downloads.
The Browsers by Xiaomi is not the best for privacy
Why are we talking about privacy? As we said, it is the conclusion of a relationship Of Thomas Brewster (IT collaborator of Forbes) and researchers Gabriel Cirlig And Andrew Tierney. They found that both Browsers they send to external servers various personal data on your navigation. This data includes all websites visited, all searches carried out and so on. The most disturbing thing is that this data is collected even if you use the famous incognito browsing (we already know that there is not so much unknown).
Xiaomi replies that the data is anonymous (even if it means little) but the researchers explain that they are strongly encrypted not very secure and are easily decipherable.
One thing we can learn from this story, other than stopping using those Browsers, is that sometimes Very little is needed to protect your privacy, such as not using the Browsers pre-installed on your mobile phone. For this reason, try as much as possible to use gods Browsers decent and tested by multiple experts, like these. Do not use programs that are not very famous and of dubious effectiveness just because maybe they're cute.
If you want to learn more about the news you can read it either on the XDA forum that directly from Forbes.
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