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There's also the "safe browsing" scam in which every URL is looked up in a list from google to check that it hasn't been deemed "unsafe".
by Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y ago
There's also the "safe browsing" scam in which every URL is looked up in a list from google to check that it hasn't been deemed "unsafe".
- bagacrap 4y agoThat uses a hashed URL
- mthoms 4y agoEven better, it’s a partial hash that gets sent.
- autoexec 4y agoThankfully nobody could ever guess what a hash of something like "facebook.com" might look like
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y agoYeah, I don't believe that. Even if it did google still has a list of "every" url it can hash and map in order to spy on you.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoI'm not sure they'd need to reverse the URL. Because of how profiling algorithms work, you could just as easily profile someone based on hashes alone. The URL doesn't matter. Basically this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Learning_of_Cohorts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Learning_of_Cohorts
- cubefox 4y agoThat's just a local list if I remember correctly.