Modern people have long been unable to imagine their lives without a personal computer and the Internet. Access to the World Wide Web is carried out, as a rule, through a special program, a browser (Internet browser). There are many browser applications with different features and features.
The article below will talk about Yandex.browser, reviews of which on the Internet are mostly positive. Why do users love this Internet browser so much? Does it have any disadvantages? Let's try to figure it out.
general description
The history of the Yandex search service dates back to 1997. Since 2000, Yandex has become an independent corporation. At the beginning of its activities, the company mainly provided search services on the global Internet.
The development of the young service was rapid. In just a decade and a half, the company has reached fourth place in the ranking of global search engines.
At the moment, the headquarters of Yandex is located in the Netherlands. At the same time, the company has its representative offices in some countries of the world and the CIS.
In 2012, the corporation announced the Yandex browser. User reviews about it at first were not always flattering, but with the development of functionality and improved stability, the attitude towards the web browser changed. Let's look at its main features.
Money Browser – reviews of the money browser
Reviews of the Money Browser online are almost exclusively negative. Let's figure out why. The main proposal of the project is as follows: “Use the usual set of functions and get rewards for the time spent on the Internet” (c). That is, they offer us money for simply “hanging” on the Internet. Just wonderful!
Let us immediately note that this is not unique, not innovative, and not the only software that offers money for time online. There are many browsers, mostly Chromium-based, that promise similar things. As a rule, things do not go beyond promises. The main goal of such programs and applications is to make money from advertising, which browser users will view for free. And the developer will receive the money...
Similar project names:
- Money Browser
- Money Browser 2019
- Fors Distribution LLC
- Fors
- LLC "Force"
The project's domain name was registered on March 21, 2020. The terms of use state that they were last updated as February 20, 2020. It turns out that the rules were created before the site itself. However, this is quite normal practice for those. Who really plans to create a website. Or the swindler simply stole a document from another site, entering his data.
Website address The website is located at: https://moneybrowser.ru E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]
The essence of the project With the Money Browser program they promise an income of up to 500 rubles per month. Very modest, don't you think? The question arises, where does the money come from? The authors of the project claim: “search engines share with the browser their profit from displaying advertisements, with the help of which the user searched and viewed the advertisement” (c). The income of major search engines amounts to millions and billions of dollars.
Against this background, 500 rubles looks like a handout, and not “profit sharing.” The scammer just needed to somehow explain the mechanism for making money. The scammer himself makes a profit from displaying advertising and more. By the way, the site says “No additional advertising,” and the terms of use state that Fors Distribution LLC (the developer of Money Browser) will show advertising as it deems necessary.
A little about the company Fors Distribution LLC, located at 170100, Tver region, Tver, Simeonovskaya street, 41. The name was stolen from another organization. Since 1999, Fors Distribution LLC, or more precisely FORS Distribution LLC, has been the official distributor of Oracle Corporation, representing its interests in the Russian Federation. And the terms of use were stolen from the site ashampoo.com
The essence of the scam Let's start with the fact that Money Browser does not pay. The minimum payment amount is 50 rubles. As soon as you begin to approach the specified indicator, your account will be reset to zero. If this does not happen, then you may submit a withdrawal request that will never be fulfilled. The project is actively advertised on axle boxes and ATS. But the problem is much worse than not paying the money earned.
Do you understand that all your data entered into Money Browser will be available to scammers? That is, all passwords, account numbers, logins and other important information. Why should a swindler use them? That's right, nothing! Do not use the Money Browser! In general, do not use untested browsers from dubious developers. Especially from those who offer you payment for surfing the Internet.
Conclusion Money Browser Money Browser is a scam.
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General opinion: Scam
Main functions
Let's analyze the tools of Yandex.browser and list its main features in a list:
- Speed of work. The Internet browser has a built-in “Turbo” module designed to increase the speed of opening pages. Video content compression tools are also used directly during viewing.
- Protect connection protection system. This module is responsible for the security of the Internet connection in public places using public Wi-Fi access points. In this case, all outgoing traffic is automatically encrypted and incoming traffic is scanned. Help is provided when making online payments. The Protect system of the new Yandex.browser, according to reviews, works stably and reliably. You can also turn it off.
- Built-in online translator.
- Using extensions - special software modules, gadgets.
- The Yandex browser display is a start page with the ability to add picture links to frequently used resources.
- Yandex.Zen is a selective news feed.
- Smart address bar. If you need to go to the required Internet page, you do not need to type the web address (especially if it has slipped your mind). Just type the name of the resource, and an automatic search for a link to the site will be performed.
- Using unique combinations of mouse movements (while holding down the right mouse button) to perform various actions.
Many of the above Yandex Browser options, according to online reviews, were liked by users. Some of them will be discussed in detail below.
Speed
- Unlike Chrome, Brave blocks ads and trackers out of the box.
- This allows websites to load noticeably faster in Brave than in Chrome. Below is a speed test between Brave, Chrome and Firefox (source:
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On the home page of the Brave browser, the user can track the total time saved waiting for pages to load.
Conclusion: Brave is faster
Confidentiality
- As mentioned above, Brave blocks ads by default (unlike Chrome, which will require installing third-party extensions such as AdBlock). This will prevent your data from being used to display intrusive ads.
- Brave blocks third party tracking by default.
Google and Facebook use third-party cookies in Chrome to track your web browsing on almost every website. By blocking third-party cookies, Brave limits the amount of data that Facebook, Google, and other ad networks can collect about your online behavior.
- Brave stores all your browsing data locally on your computer. This means that you can delete them at any time.
- Brave allows the user to connect to the Tor network, making it the first universal browser with such functionality.
Conclusion: Brave preserves your privacy better
Web Browser Tableau
The Yandex Internet browser board is a screen form containing links to resources frequently used by the user of a personal computer. In addition to automatically added addresses of popular pages, there are web links specified by the user. The display board is displayed every time the user wants to add a new page in the web browser.
In total, you can add 20 link pictures to the scoreboard page, displayed in the form of rectangular tiles.
You can change the background of the form. You can use static or animated drawings.
The essence of the scam Browser with built-in cryptocurrency mining:
This time the promises of the scammers made me laugh. Five hundred rubles a month is not even five hundred rubles a day. But you won’t get any money when installing it, but on the contrary, you can harm both your wallet and your gadget. The browser you are being asked to install is viral. Once it gets into your software, it opens the way for fraudsters to your banking applications. For example, everyone has Sberbank online on their phones. Many people also use applications from other banks - Otkritie, Tinkoff, etc. These applications themselves are perfectly protected from scammers and hackers. But in your gadgets, if such a virus program is present, they may suffer. Therefore, we strongly advise against using this program. Especially if you are using wallet. There your cards have all your personal information. The scammers provided two emails, but neither of them is correct. Having studied more than a hundred similar sites, we immediately realized that this was yet another lie from scammers. Beautiful promises that you will have five hundred rubles a month sound very, very funny.
Protect connection protection
The Protect system is a firewall built into the Yandex browser. Reviews of his work are contradictory. Some users don’t like the module’s excessive initiative and playing it safe when opening various resources.
Despite some nuances, browser protection mode helps protect the user’s personal data when accessing the Internet through public Wi-Fi access points. When working in protection mode, all outgoing traffic is automatically encrypted, and outgoing traffic is scrupulously checked, while all suspicious (or poorly proven) sites are blocked (the user can decide to open such a web page, regardless of the Protect system).
Separately, it should be noted that the system tracks user online payments. If payment for goods or services occurs via the Internet, the Protect system requires additional consent from the person to carry out such transactions.
Unpleasant features of the Yandex browser (Internet browser)
Whether you knew about it or not, Yandex has had its own browser for a “long time”, proudly called Yandex.Internet. The browser is based on the Chromium browser, and therefore open source. The daily audience of this browser is not so small: Chrome (Yandex) 1,027,563 1.3%
Now let’s remember several scandals related to the “leakage” of data on the Internet, namely shopping lists in intimate stores, data on tickets sold and SMS messages from a megaphone, and see what we can dig up about this in the license agreement of this browser. And maybe after this all the questions about how this could end up in the public domain will disappear by themselves.
So:
6.3. The User is hereby notified and agrees that when using the Program, the following information is automatically transferred to the Copyright Holder anonymously (without reference to the User): the type of operating system of the User’s computer, the version and identifier of the Program, statistics on the use of the Program’s functions, as well as other technical information.
What is "technical information"? Is the session number technical information? By comparison, Google lists everything it collects in its user agreements, and does not include the phrase “other technical information.”
3.1.1. Use the Program for its intended functional purpose, for the purpose of which it is copied and installed (played) on the User’s personal computer(s). The User has the right to install the Program on an unlimited number of personal computers. When installed on a personal computer, each copy of the Program is assigned an individual number, which is automatically communicated to the Copyright Holder.
Is the program number technical information?
Read further paragraphs 5.1-5.7. They are long, but the meaning can be formulated very briefly: by default, everything that happens inside the browser is transferred to Yandex servers, including entered texts (except passwords), URLs of viewed pages, page contents, etc.
This can be turned off, but did those whose data floated into the network know about this? And would they have the computer skills to do it?
In addition, it is extremely interesting: 1. are credit card numbers also transmitted to Yandex servers? 2. what about phone numbers? 3. What about unique pages generated when sending SMS or for shopping lists in online stores?
And when viewing a government services website, will all the content of the pages and what is entered be transferred to the Yandex servers?
But that's not all! You will be burdened, without the possibility of refusal, with software of unknown purpose, the list of which you do not know when signing this user agreement.
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5.11. The User is hereby notified and agrees that when installing the Program, additional components (buttons) for the Program will be automatically selected and installed for him, interacting with popular social networks, email services and other tools, and such selection is carried out fully automatically and without transferring data outside the User's computer.
Well, about the open source code of the browser (and some components were under GPL). He stayed with his ancestor:
4. Limitations
4.1. With the exception of use to the extent and in the ways expressly provided for by this License or the legislation of the Russian Federation, the User has no right to change, decompile, disassemble, decrypt or perform other actions with the object code of the Program aimed at obtaining information about the implementation of algorithms used in the Program, or create derivatives works using the Program, as well as to carry out (permit to carry out) other use of the Program, without the written consent of the Copyright Holder.
PS: For the Yandex bar, the user agreement is almost completely identical.
Add-on "Yandex.Zen"
"Yandex.Zen" is a built-in news module of the Yandex browser. Reviews of his work online are positive. This module is responsible for displaying a list of news links at the bottom of the web browser display. The subject of the links provided is based on the user's search preferences. Additionally, a person can make a choice regarding automatically selected pages by prohibiting their display.
Yandex translation system
The web browser has powerful built-in text translation tools. There are currently 94 languages available in the system.
The built-in translator of the Yandex browser, according to reviews, itself offers to translate any opened Internet page into the language of the user’s country of residence. It is also possible to translate any text or word upon request.
In 2020, experts significantly improved the algorithm of the browser translation engine.
User reviews
For convenience, we will divide the result of the review analysis into two groups. One will contain the advantages, and the second will contain the disadvantages of the web browser.
Advantages of the Yandex browser, according to reviews from experts and users:
- Excellent speed of opening web pages.
- Protect protection system.
- Modern, pleasant and ergonomic design.
- Powerful built-in text translation tools.
- Intelligent search engine.
- Ease of use.
- Import bookmarks to favorite resources from other Internet browsers.
- Ability to install various extension applications that increase overall functionality.
- Undemanding on computer resources.
Disadvantages of Yandex.browser (according to reviews):
- It is often installed along with various applications.
- Contains a lot of rather intrusive advertising.
- Third-party applications are installed along with the browser.
- Sometimes there are problems updating the browser version.
- Incorrect operation of the Zen service - news is updated in the feed with a delay.
- It is difficult for an inexperienced user to remove an installed browser application - it leaves behind a lot of software garbage.
- In the Android version, it is not possible to deactivate the Protect mode.
- Difficulty disabling advertising using the browser itself.
- Sometimes the Internet channel clogs.
- A sharp slowdown in work speed when opening a large number of tabs.
- Inability to remove (disable) some web browser extensions.
- Sometimes the application freezes.
Reviews for Yandex.Browser
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Serge | 23-10-2016, 01:00 I really like it
Oleg | 7-10-2016, 23:16 Guys, I’ve already formed my opinion. Panties is a good browser, but intrusive. Fire Fox rules! Whoever is against it, I don’t mind...
Volodya | 09/23/2016, 22:00 Hello. I don't know who's criticizing this browser. Maybe competitors? Or people whose computers are a mess and everything is buggy? I downloaded it and installed it. Everything works fine, works quickly, no problems.
Guest | 09/13/2016, 18:07 Extremely unfriendly interface. The layout of the controls is illogical, and some elements are not visually perceptible. It’s a strange trend; many programs are now dealing with these problems. It looks like UI designers have grown old and died out.
Danil | 07/26/2016, 07:33 pm Hello, I’m happy with everything, but I’m a bit stressed Yandex Browser doesn’t support unity VK, it’s not good, fix it, I’m waiting for a new version so that this plugin can be supported!
Igor | 10-05-2016, 20:51 Good browser. Everything you need is there. Works fast.
User of different browsers | 3-05-2016, 16:35 Yandex is not a browser! These are PANTIES, or rather what is in them, one word F*CK. This is squalor based on advertising.
User of different browsers | 3-05-2016, 16:31 I wish a complete ban on Yandex in Russia = sucks, squalor and intrusive advertising. They pulled a thong over a ball and fooled people, saying it was a decent browser.
Thunder | 05/03/2016, 06:42 After installing the Yandex browser, the virus keeps popping up with advertisements, in short it’s shit, not a browser+
Vadim | 05/03/2016, 04:49 Yandex browser sucks, When you restart the PC, Yandex quietly installs programs that have the rights to view and change data on the sites you visit.
Anna | 04/30/2016, 21:55 The program is bad, you can’t even find a scale to enlarge the small print, why sit with a magnifying glass?
Alexander | 04/28/2016, 11:36 pm terrible browser, it crashes all the time. the developers created complete crap
Valery | 04/23/2016, 20:10 I have never seen a worse Yandex browser. Freezes, crashes, the search engine does not work correctly
Igor | 04/22/2016, 18:14 G... not a browser. I have been using Yandex for 10 years. I wrote to support that it keeps crashing.
EpicAngel | 16-04-2016, 22:59 Excellent browser!
Yuri | 04/12/2016, 09:18 For me, the biggest drawback of the Yandex browser is the lack of saving a web page as a web archive (mht).
Nikita | 04/07/2016, 11:30 inconvenient interface and constant freezes
Ilya | 2-04-2016, 22:51 Disables FriGate!!! This is simply outrageous! And so we have to endure his slowness, and this too! It's time to delete!
Alexander | 1-04-2016, 18:07 Yandex is the slowest video freezes for 2 months, deleted it 30 times, then immediately downloaded enough for normal work for at least 4 days, then again everything froze. Right now I've uploaded Mozilla heaven and earth, it works on 10+ videos, it's nice to watch, no freezes, no blurry frames. Among other things, I learned from a specific Yandex person the surveillance virus itself.
Dmitry | 03/22/2016, 00:19 I tried to install the advertised Yandex browser on my computer. I started with VK. Immediately after I started uploading photos it says “not responding” and everything freezes, I tried this 10 times and the problem is the same. And from this I realized that all advertising on this Yandex is money in the hole! First, finalize it properly, and then do advertising. Judging by the comments, I’m not the only one, which means the developers should think about it! As I used chrome, so will I.
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