Humming Owl

Hello! I wanted to share all the steps that let me get rid of the 360 Extreme Explorer telemetry (Only tested in Version 9.5.0.138 of the Russian Repack). Hope this can help someone! 360 EE 9.5.0.138 (Russian Repack) - Downloads from: https://lrepacks.net/repaki-programm-dlya-interneta/182-360-extreme-explorer-amp-portable.html Steps to unpack the browser: - I ran the .cmd file that says something in russian and "portable". - When the process ended I opened the "360Chrome" folder and from there I did the following: A) Removed files (in /Chrome/Application/9.5.0.138) - newtab.zip - errorpage.zip (the first file connects to chinese stuff when it is opened and the second one is displayed in chinese and I do not like it). B) Changes to file "appstore.js" inside "options.zip" (in /Chrome/Application/9.5.0.138) I used 7zip (https://www.7-zip.org/) to open the .zip file, right clicked in the "appstore.js" file and selected "Edit". I removed the entries: "https://ext.chrome.360.cn/webstore/detail/", "https://ext.chrome.360.cn/tabextension/get_json" and "#appstorePage .network-error". The first two entries unable the browser from connecting to the chinese appstore everytime you enter the browser settings. The third one involves the removal of the "error page" in the "Adfilter" option (in browser settings) when the browser can not connect to the chinese appstore while entering the "Adfilter" option. The third entry is optional, I removed it because it displays stuff in chinese. C) Changes made to the file "Preferences" (in Chrome/User Data/Default) - I searched for the "accept_languages" entry and then modified the line "accept_languages": "ru-RU,ru,en-US,en" and replaced by "accept_languages": "en-US,en". This action allows to display websites in English and not in Russian. D) Changes made to the file "chrome.dll" (in /Chrome/Application/9.5.0.138) I used the "HxD Hex Editor" program (https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/). This section is only to replace stuff so the code for the execution of telemetry fails. All the removed stuff was replaced by dots (dot = 2E). - I Replaced all ".cn" entries with 3 dots and each one of the entries "360.", ".360", "101.", "106.", "123." and "210." with 4 dots. E) Changes made to inside browser preferences: 1) In "Basics": - I unchecked "Show recommend words". 2) In "UI style": I unchecked the following: - "Show copy paste helper" (This was displayed in chinese) . - "Always show search-box" (Optional). - "Always show status bar" (Optional). - "Enable intelligent URL (Recommended)" (chinese IP adresses appear when it is enabled). - "Enable url autocomplete" (chinese IP adresses appear when it is enabled). 3) In "Download": I unchecked the following: - "Use thunder p2sp download" (I don't know what it is). - "SaveImagesQuickly" (you can have it if you want). 4) In "Personal stuff": I unchecked the following: - "Prompt the user while saving password." - "Enable Autofill to fill out web forms in a single click." 5) In "Advanced": I unchecked the following: - "Enable speed optimizations" (I do not want it and do not know what kind of "optimization" will execute). - "Enable smooth scrolling" (I think it consumes a little more resources, you can leave it if you want). - "Use a prediction service to load pages more quickly". - "Join user experience plan to help us improve our products". 6) In "Lab": I unchecked the following: - "Use Hardware acceleration when available". - "Enable The tab's audio muting function". - "IE kernal popup opens in a new tab". - "IE kernal enable data execution prevention(DEP)". I disabled them because I do not want them, you can have them if you want, but I do not know what the 3 last options do. F) Extensions added to the browser: - Ublock Origin. - I don't care about cookies. Finally I executed "360Loader.exe" and everything went fine! PD: In the steps there are things that others have already mentioned. I use the older version of this browser because it consumes less resources than the newer ones. Also, I don't know if with the further versions of this browser the telemetry becomes harder to remove.

I tested the HxD and modified the chrome.dll (Only that file) by searching ".cn", ".360" (among others) and some IP adresses in it (few ones that start with "101.", "106." "123." "210.") and then replacing them with dots (2E = dot = .). Then I tested the browser for an hour (opening google, duckduckgo, gmail and youtube) with TcpLogView (to see which connections the browser made) and to my surprise none of the chinesse ip addresses appeared!

Hello to all. I saw this forum quite a while ago and then I did my own way to block IPs (from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong) through Peerblock with this little program I made. It is supposed to run on Linux. I really want to know if there is a way to disable the telemetry completely by erasing the code that activates it. To use the program execute the .sh file and at the end a file named "union-final.txt" (that appears in the same directory as the .sh file) is the one you want. What this program does is the following: 1) Collects all IP Lists from "ipverse.net" and "ipdeny.com" of the countries listed above. 2) Merge every .txt file into one. 3) Then eliminates repeated entries. 4) And finally put the .txt in a format that Peerblock can read and apply to its custom IP block feature. There are more pages from where you can pull IP lists from countries you want but the others are copies of these two that I mentioned in the steps. There is one in particular (ip2location) that adds more ranges of IPs to the file but to access the database, it has to be done manually. I searched how to automate the process but no luck with that. Almost all IP ranges from the ones I could gather are in the pages quoted in 1). The .php file that is inside the .zip is not mine, I have found it in GitHub and modified it a bit, I do not remember from where but when I find it again I will post it here. I do not know a lot about programming. I just want to make a good use out of a old laptop I have that runs XP and somehow I have ended doing this. I Hope it can be useful to some of you. I want a safe browser based on a relatively recent version of chromium that can run on XP computers. Greetings. IP-Blocker.zip