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Why send every url you visit (or its hash, whatever) to google in return for little to no tangible benefit? I've never used safebrowsing at any point since its
by dishsoap 3y ago
Why send every url you visit (or its hash, whatever) to google in return for little to no tangible benefit? I've never used safebrowsing at any point since its introduction and have yet to encounter a single instance where I would have benefitted had I been using it.
- sowbug 3y agoChrome uses a local bloom filter of bad URLs for precisely that reason.
- mtmail 3y agoFirefox downloads a list regularly, it doesn't send URLs of every visit to Google https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-in-firefox/ https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-... "It would be too slow (and privacy-invasive) to contact a trusted server every time the browser wants to establish a connection with a web server. Instead, Firefox downloads a list of bad URLs every 30 minutes from the server (browser.safebrowsing.provider.google.updateURL) and does a lookup against its local database before displaying a page to the user."
- rodlette 3y agoSee https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2019/10/13/dear-apple-safe-browsing-might-not-be-that-safe/ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2019/10/13/dear-app... for a critique of the privacy of Safe Browsing.