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Safe browsing is there for Google to spy on you easily, not to detect hacks.
by rvba 3y ago
Safe browsing is there for Google to spy on you easily, not to detect hacks.
- kuchenbecker 3y agoSafebrowsing uses a privacy preserving hash prefix algorithm to match against urls.[1] 1 - The first 4 bytes of all url hashes in the blocklist are cached in the browser. 2 - When there is a match, you request of Google the actual urls on the blocklist. 3 - Client side your browser blocks loading the url. Google only knows that the site had a hash collision with the first 4 bytes of something in the blocklist. I, personally, think that's a fair price for otherwise free malware protection. It's also built into Firefox and on by default. [2] [1] https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4#update-api-v4 https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4#update-api-v4 [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Safe_Browsing https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Safe_Browsing