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My understanding of safe browsing is that a local database is maintained and lookups happen against that. Eg: no information about the sites you're visiting is
by mnahkies 2y ago
My understanding of safe browsing is that a local database is maintained and lookups happen against that. Eg: no information about the sites you're visiting is leaked.
Is this not the case / am I misunderstanding something?
Ref: https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-in-firefox/ https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-...
- account42 2y agoYour understanding is not (entirely) up to date. At some point they switched to downloading only a list of (partial) hashes. If an URL matches a partial hash then the browser asks Google for a lists of URLs for that hash. This does can let google get some information about what websites you visit. And those requests as well as the updates of the initial hash lists still ping Google with all the tracking posibilities that entails.