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I praise your effort, I'd like to see more diverse browser landscape as well. But in this particular case I think that different browser (or particularly Firef

by myfonj 4y ago

I praise your effort, I'd like to see more diverse browser landscape as well. But in this particular case I think that different browser (or particularly Firefox) would not possibly prevent that problem, since (Firefox) shares same "Safe Browsing" database with Google, for "Phishing Protection". https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Safe_Browsing https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Safe_Browsing

mritzmann 4y ago
> (..) since Firefox shares same "Safe Browsing" database with Google This. Firefox even sends the hash and filename of each download to Google. So if you use Firefox to download the Tor browser, an abortion price list or a secret PDF, Google knows you downloaded it. https://www.pentagrid.ch/en/blog/block_browser_requests_to_google_during_security_analysis_in_burp/ https://www.pentagrid.ch/en/blog/block_browser_requests_to_g... Disclaimer: The blogpost is two years old, but I assume this is still current.