Вскрыл APK Яндекс Браузера: как он ищет Tor и VPN

An investigation by RKS Global recently made the rounds online. Headlines reported that Yandex services were searching for traces of VPNs on phones , and that Yandex Browser was specifically sniffing out installed TOR browsers. Most simply shrugged and continued scrolling through their feed. But my inner paranoid got hooked on one strange detail. Why would a mega-corporation

write separate code for a single niche browser? Looking for Tor among millions of apps? This is too precise, it doesn’t happen. Pulling this thread [music], I decided not to believe the articles, but to see everything with my own eyes. I armed myself with reverse engineering tools, gutted the current Yandex browser [music] accounts and dug straight into the source code. And

you know what? The news about Thor being found is not even the tip of the iceberg. [music] It's just a speck of dust on top of it. Right now, without cheap hype and conspiracy theories, I will show you real pieces of code. You'll see with your own eyes how exactly the browser detects your

camouflage methods and what data it's vacuuming in the background. [music] And believe me, when you look at these algorithms from the inside, you will realize that what we are really talking about is a quiet, methodical inventory of your digital freedom. Ideally, the browser should be completely indifferent to what is installed on your smartphone.

Its task is simple: open a link, render a page, show a video, and save cookies. The less [music] code, the lighter and better the browser. But Yandex has a huge array of package names inside its code. [music] These are the internal true names of applications that the Android [music] system knows them by. These are not the