On 25/07/14 10:48, Rubén Martín wrote:
> As far as I know currently Firefox checks a local downloaded list, not
> directly. Am I wrong?

As I understand it, if Firefox hits a positive on the downloaded list of
URL hash prefixes, it asks Google for the full hash so it can do a
proper comparison. However, we ask for four other random hashes at the
same time so it's not clear what exact site you visited.

> I remember a similar discussion about this year ago and how we should
> protect users privacy not pinging third-party servers.

We are already talking to Google's servers to do safebrowsing (to
download the lists and expand the hashes), although the cookie is separate.

(I'm channeling a recent discussion about this but I can't for the life
of me remember where I read it.)

Gerv

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