16 karma · joined July 17, 2014
TL;DR: It doesn't matter if you agree to join "User Experience Improvement Program" in Maxthon or not - the browser regularly sends this data to Beijing servers:
- Windows service pack version,
- screen resolution,
- Maxthon version,
- CPU freq,
- Maxthon path,
- adblock info,
- startup site address,
and the most important: - ADDRESS OF EVERY VISITED SITE - full history, with every query entered in google,
- every ~5 reports - FULL LIST OF INSTALLED SOFTWARE (with exact versions).It is good that Amazon is protecting user accounts. But the way it was handled in my case is scary - writing just that my "account is closed", it "cannot be reopened" and it's the end, when I have a few sites running on AWS managed to frighten me ;) Maybe they would try to contact me before by phone if I didn't live in Eastern Europe, who knows?
Fortunately, an hour ago I received an email from Amazon saying that my account has been reinstated, so these few times I've contacted them about this problem have an effect.
I'm using NordVPN. It's the first time I've used Amazon Payments through VPN. As Amazon writes: "our records indicate that an unauthorized person has logged into your account" - I don't think it can be connected to anything other than using the payments through the vpn from another country.