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> I would also say switch to FF, but they also use the secret safe browsing lists, so they'll probably switch to this as well. They use this by default, but yo
by r3bl 9y ago
> I would also say switch to FF, but they also use the secret safe browsing lists, so they'll probably switch to this as well.
They use this by default, but you're free to turn it off, and that setting (unlike others) seems to sync just fine using Firefox Sync. Just checked and it's off. I turned it off once years ago and switched between OSs and different devices in the meantime, and it's still off.
Don't know if the same is possible on Chrome.
> I should note that this is the same mechanism by which the safe browsing lists work that tell you a page may be bad. For consistency, I disagree with that too of course, but I find the motives and targets here to be much more sinister.
I agree with you completely on this one.
I had to turn that off on two layers, on a browser level, and inside my antivirus' firewall. My antivirus now constantly complains that I'm "not fully protected" because I don't want it to do web filtering for me.
I do support other private browsing techniques that stay on my device, like first party isolation, and adblock-like lists that are downloaded on my device.
Both are available in Firefox, and using them doesn't collide with my stance on NN, since I'm the one preventing the content from being fetched by my machines.