[Android General] b00b:
I didnt know that dolphin was such a 'privacy pirate' until i decided to try it out.

I am a very cautious person and do not trust the android os itself before i say any 3rd party android app. The android os is riddled with individual apps that all constantly read, store and transmit your device id, contact details (your phone numbers and emails etc and that of your friends & relative stored on your device) and very likely your browsing habits and banking details and a lot more most people (who i call 'sheeps' deliberate misspelling there) dont have a clue about.

Anyway back to dolphin - on installing the app, i began to notice some suspect behavior from the browser (not going to go into details here) and this make me realize that dolphin like many other free apps (include apple devices) out there are all trojan horses, given to us supposedly free whilst it is silently in the background gathering all kinds of data from us and about us, to be sold to big corporations or uncle sam.

I subsequently immediately uninstalled it and to my surprise a couple of seconds after uninstalling dolphin v10, my firefox browser was started up and brought to the fore and a very long survey link starting with - http://survey.dolphin.com/int/uninstall?id= was pushed unto it and then the submit button clicked, all without me doing anything. The submitting of the inform about my phone and GOD knows what else about me that was on that link was thwarted by the fact that i have LBE install and so LBE needed me to confirm that i wanted firefox to connect to my phone 3g internet connection, which i denied. However most user i believe are not as cautious as me and if it was them, dolphin would have that info straight away.

Anyway on observing the very long link/url i realized that the link also have my phone model, my android os version, my country code, my mobile providers MCC and MNC, my screen-size and some other codes. So apart from the infos mentioned there were 4 other sets of longish numbers that looked hashed/salted info and therefore encrypted, so i/we cant know what was being sent and ask them why they need that info!

Now for those who will say oh its just a survey - i ask - why does a survey supposedly to find out why i uninstall dolphin need such a long link all that personal info - for example, my country code, phone providers MCC and MNC? They could have achieved finding out why i uninstall dolphin with just a simple normal link pointing to the actual survey page asking me for all the info they tried to send to themselves without my permission and i would have decided if i wanted to give it to them or not!

They are still up to their same old tricks of siphoning off to their servers, our internet usage and other private data, they are just now very clever at doing so i.e. encrypted it and hiding the codes responsible for this deep within their programming code, so we dont see or recognize it, whilst pretending to give us improvements and so called superfast/best browser.

Everyone should think about this question very careful - Why would a company like dolphin or any other company or app developers out there hire/employ tons of programmers and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to give us a free browser, --- where do they get their income from or what is their income stream?

I guess these companies rely on the age-old fact that most people are 'sheeps' and that they like free stuff, give people free stuff or enough money and you can do anything to them or use them in anyway you want, as long as you are smart about it, from stealing their info, to spying on them, to even trying out new drugs/chemicals/gm products on them, to slowly poisoning them, whilst convincing them that its all in their interest and that they have free will etc!