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> Google is also told what urls people type in. You must be thinking of Chrome. In Firefox this is very definitely NOT the case. That's why the url bar and t
by bzbarsky 15y ago
> Google is also told what urls people type in.
You must be thinking of Chrome. In Firefox this is very definitely NOT the case. That's why the url bar and the search field are separate.
- illumen 15y agoyup, thanks. I removed that bit from the post. If I type "blabla" into the url bar and press enter it still goes to google, even if you change the default search engine to say duck duck go/wikipedia etc. Also doesn't Firefox send google the url for 'safebrowsing', the anti phishing detection thing?
- bzbarsky 15y ago> If I type "blabla" into the url bar and press enter it > still goes to google It goes to a search engine defined in user preferences, actually. You are correct that this search engine is not correlated with the one selected in the search field. > 'safebrowsing', the anti phishing detection thing? That's carefully designed to not have to send the url to the safebrowsing provider. The browser has a client-side database of blacklisted urls, and there is also a mode where a one-way hash of the url is sent to the safebrowsing provider. In no case is the actual url sent.