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Firefox 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:
by mtmail 3y ago
Firefox 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.