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Initial releaseJuly 2011 [1]
Operating systemWindows
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Baidu Browser (Chinese: 百度浏览器 ) is a WebKit and Trident web browser[2] developed by Baidu for Personal Computers and mobile phones. The Windows version of Baidu Browser contains a feature for proxy requests to certain websites, which permits access to some websites that are normally blocked in China, it also leaks search terms, hard drive serial number, network MAC address, as well as the title of all visited webpages. GPU model number is also transmitted. It had a built in adblocker, and also a torrent and video downloader.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] The PC edition was discontinued in May 2019, and on 29 September 2019 the basic functions, e.g. webpage browsing were terminated.[14]

References

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  6. ↑ "Browsers helping netizens hop China's Great Firewall could be here to stay". South China Morning Post. 2020-10-23. Archived from the original on 2020-12-28. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
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  8. ↑ "Baidu's Mobile Browser Steps Out Of Asia And Into Africa With Exclusive France Telecom Deal". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 2020-12-28. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  9. ↑ Rauhala, Emily. "This Chinese browser gathers a crazy amount of your data and then stores it unsafely". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on 2020-12-28. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  10. ↑ Ong, Josh (2012-09-03). "China's Baidu Leaps on to Mobile with Speedy HTML5 Android Browser". The Next Web. Archived from the original on 2020-12-28. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  11. ↑ Knockel, Jeffrey; McKune, Sarah; Senft, Adam (2016-02-23). "Baidu's and Don'ts: Privacy and Security Issues in Baidu Browser". The Citizen Lab. Archived from the original on 2020-12-28. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  12. ↑ February 2016, Sead Fadilpašić 24 (8 March 2019). "China's Baidu Browser leaks almost everything". ITProPortal. Archived from the original on 2020-12-28. Retrieved 2020-12-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ↑ "Baidu browser frankensteins Google Chrome and Internet Explorer - ExtremeTech". www.extremetech.com. Archived from the original on 2020-12-28. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  14. ↑ "公告". 2019-05-18. Archived from the original on 2019-05-18. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
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