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You're making a substantially different claim than the article. Where did you get the idea that it's sending every URL to google?
by rgbrenner 11y ago
You're making a substantially different claim than the article. Where did you get the idea that it's sending every URL to google?
- tedunangst 11y agoThe follow up email.
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- duskwuff 11y agoIs false. Google is big, but even they couldn't handle the load of a large fraction of the world's web browsers sending them a request for every page loaded. That'd be insane. Google Safe Browsing is based on a Bloom filter. The browser downloads the filter in a series of requests when it first starts up, or when the filter is out of date. It also sends a followup request if it finds a hit, but this is rare unless you're actually about to visit a site that's been flagged as unsafe.
- rsuelzer 11y agoMaybe? They essentially do this with Google Analytics? No?
- johnmaguire2013 11y agoNot to mention Google Chrome's search suggestions?
- magicalist 11y ago> It also sends a followup request if it finds a hit, but this is rare unless you're actually about to visit a site that's been flagged as unsafe And the followup still doesn't send the URL or even a hash of the URL. It sends just a prefix of the hash to download all URL hashes matching that prefix to do the comparison to the actual current URL locally.