September 4th, 2006
Browzar Responds to Privacy Concerns
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
As Jimmy wrote about a few days ago, Browzar, a web browser that’s supposed to protect your privacy, launched last week. However, because of the controversial “paid for” search results its web page would give, the software itself has been branded adware.
A major element of the backlash since Browzar’s launch last week has been related to its utilisation of Yahoo’s Overture search engine, which has outraged many users by burying impartial results behind pages of sponsored results.
“We don’t do adware. We have Overture and people are not happy with the way that they show their results,” Ahmed told ZDNet UK on Monday. “As a response to that, the engine is going to be changed.” He added that Ask would be deployed as the new engine . Source: ZDNet UK
We Say: Nice to see them address this issue, but there are still issues (bugs) with the software itself. If I really want anonymous or ultra-private browsing, I’ll use EverPrivate.
Sepp says:
I read browzar is available for PC, mac and linux.
Unfortunately, the mac version doesn’t seem to be ready yet
Discovered that as I tried to download the browser.
September 5th, 2006 at 9:25 am
Lockergnome's Tech News Watch says:
Browzar Responds To Privacy Concerns
Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes: As Jimmy wrote about a few days ago, Browzar, a Web browser that’s supposed to protect your privacy, launched last week. However, because of the controversial “paid for” search results its Web page would give, t…
September 8th, 2006 at 11:15 am
Roger says:
Here’s a guide how to change the home page in Browzar:
http://rogerkarlsson.com/blogs/misc/change-browzar-home-page/
September 8th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
emily says:
I know ajaz and he is very poor and desperate. And he was NOT the founder of freeserve! Bless…
September 11th, 2006 at 3:34 pm