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<blockquote data-quote="Marko :)" data-source="post: 953232" data-attributes="member: 39702">Well, duh. It sends just part of the URL and it&#039;s hashed before sending. And it only sends it if you came across dangerous site. I find that acceptable since in any case Google won&#039;t get any idea what sites I visit.Their top sites list probably contains only Microsoft&#039;s domains because when I played with Fiddler, all URLs were sent; it didn&#039;t matter how popular site was. And it was all unhashed. Not to mention it used to send user IDs along to Microsoft so they had pretty good idea where the one surfs. And it&#039;s worth to keep in mind; just because the site is popular, it doesn&#039;t mean it&#039;s safe. There were plenty of cases popular websites became malicious.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-smartscreen-sends-urls-and-app-names-to-microsoft/[/URL]It can, but again, it&#039;s hashed. Even with maximum protection enabled (which has to be manually), Google still doesn&#039;t have any idea where I surf.On the other hand, SmartScreen has just two options—ON and OFF. You&#039;re either protected or vulnerable. If they implemented Google&#039;s way of protection, I&#039;d be happy to use Edge and SmartScreen. Until then, SmartScreen stays disabled completely on my PC.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marko :), post: 953232, member: 39702"] Well, duh. It sends just part of the URL and it's hashed before sending. And it only sends it if you came across dangerous site. I find that acceptable since in any case Google won't get any idea what sites I visit. Their [I]top sites[/I] list probably contains only Microsoft's domains because when I played with Fiddler, all URLs were sent; it didn't matter how popular site was. And it was all unhashed. Not to mention it used to send user IDs along to Microsoft so they had pretty good idea where the one surfs. And it's worth to keep in mind; just because the site is popular, it doesn't mean it's safe. There were plenty of cases popular websites became malicious. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-smartscreen-sends-urls-and-app-names-to-microsoft/[/URL] It can, but again, it's hashed. Even with maximum protection enabled (which has to be manually), Google still doesn't have any idea where I surf. On the other hand, SmartScreen has just two options—ON and OFF. You're either protected or vulnerable. If they implemented Google's way of protection, I'd be happy to use Edge and SmartScreen. Until then, SmartScreen stays disabled completely on my PC. [/QUOTE]

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