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Quote: > Before blocking the site, Firefox will request a double-check to ensure that the reported site has not been removed from the list since your last upda
by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
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> Before blocking the site, Firefox will request a double-check to ensure that the reported site has not been removed from the list since your last update.
Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-malware-protection-work https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...
- eli 12y agoPretty sure it's still actually sending a hash, not a URL
- TheLoneWolfling 12y agoThe entity I'm primarily worried about tracking here is Google. And, pretty much trivially, if the URL was added to the blacklist, they have the corresponding URL to the hash. (Not to mention, even if they didn't, their core product is based around crawling webpages. I'd be highly surprised if they didn't have hashes of the URLs they visited.) And, even beside that, URLs are relatively low-entropy. Especially with the path-splitting that safe-browsing does.
- eli 12y agoI think your fears are unfounded, but it's easy enough to turn off.