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<blockquote data-quote="HarborFront" data-source="post: 924004" data-attributes="member: 55987"><p>Quote from the link</p><p></p><p>Google explicitly states that the information collected as part of operating the Safe Browsing service <a href="https://blog.chromium.org/2012/01/all-about-safe-browsing.html" target="_blank">"is only used to flag malicious activity and is never used anywhere else at Google"</a> and that <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/whitepaper.html#malware" target="_blank">"Safe Browsing requests won't be associated with your Google Account"</a>. In addition, Firefox adds a few privacy protections:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Query string parameters are <a href="https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/494289c72ba3997183e7b5beaca3e0447ecaf96d/toolkit/components/downloads/ApplicationReputation.cpp#684-710" target="_blank">stripped</a> from URLs we check as part of the download protection feature.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cookies set by the Safe Browsing servers to protect the service from abuse are stored in a <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=897516" target="_blank">separate cookie jar</a> so that they are not mixed with regular browsing/session cookies.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When requesting complete hashes for a 32-bit prefix, Firefox throws in a number of extra <a href="https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/494289c72ba3997183e7b5beaca3e0447ecaf96d/toolkit/components/url-classifier/nsUrlClassifierDBService.cpp#283-289" target="_blank">"noise" entries</a> to obfuscate the original URL further.</li> </ul><p>On balance, we believe that most users will want to keep Safe Browsing enabled, but we also make it easy for <a href="https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html" target="_blank">users with particular needs</a> to turn it off.</p><p></p><p>Unquote</p><p></p><p>As a user, like me, who wants to de-Google then connecting to Google servers is unacceptable regardless of what Google says</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HarborFront, post: 924004, member: 55987"] Quote from the link Google explicitly states that the information collected as part of operating the Safe Browsing service [URL='https://blog.chromium.org/2012/01/all-about-safe-browsing.html']"is only used to flag malicious activity and is never used anywhere else at Google"[/URL] and that [URL='https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/whitepaper.html#malware']"Safe Browsing requests won't be associated with your Google Account"[/URL]. In addition, Firefox adds a few privacy protections: [LIST] [*]Query string parameters are [URL='https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/494289c72ba3997183e7b5beaca3e0447ecaf96d/toolkit/components/downloads/ApplicationReputation.cpp#684-710']stripped[/URL] from URLs we check as part of the download protection feature. [*]Cookies set by the Safe Browsing servers to protect the service from abuse are stored in a [URL='https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=897516']separate cookie jar[/URL] so that they are not mixed with regular browsing/session cookies. [*]When requesting complete hashes for a 32-bit prefix, Firefox throws in a number of extra [URL='https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/494289c72ba3997183e7b5beaca3e0447ecaf96d/toolkit/components/url-classifier/nsUrlClassifierDBService.cpp#283-289']"noise" entries[/URL] to obfuscate the original URL further. [/LIST] On balance, we believe that most users will want to keep Safe Browsing enabled, but we also make it easy for [URL='https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html']users with particular needs[/URL] to turn it off. Unquote As a user, like me, who wants to de-Google then connecting to Google servers is unacceptable regardless of what Google says [/QUOTE]
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