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Does Silk also kick in for SSL websites (the previous version did, iirc)? I hope they had the decency to disable it for SSL connections.
by luser001 14y ago
Does Silk also kick in for SSL websites (the previous version did, iirc)?
I hope they had the decency to disable it for SSL connections.
- sswezey 14y agoI don't think you understand Silk entirely, it's a web browser - it doesn't 'kick in,' it's how you connect to any web site.
- luser001 14y agoJust trying to be succinct: what I meant is the "render on the server" concept, which the thing that differentiates Silk from every other browser.
- alexchamberlain 14y agoDoes it really render on the server? Doesn't it just proxy over SPDY?
- RexRollman 14y agoWhen Silk is set to fetch everything through Amazon, the default, do all DNS queries go through Amazon as well?
- sp332 14y agoBack when Silk first came out, they told the EFF that they don't send HTTPS traffic through their server. https://www.eff.org/2011/october/amazon-fire%E2%80%99s-new-browser-puts-spotlight-privacy-trade-offs https://www.eff.org/2011/october/amazon-fire%E2%80%99s-new-b... But HTTPS obscures everything but the destination server. Even the rest of the URL should be invisible, so if Amazon is still tracking URLs, they are at least partly circumventing SSL protections.