On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 21:27, Tux99 <[email protected]> wrote: > What I did though is read the specs of the protocol that implements this > 'feature' and I must say that it's not entirely clear what information > Firefox passes on to Google when contacting the Google 'safe-browsing' > databse. The current version of the protocol seems very complicated to > me, I'd say unnecessarily complicated, which is not what you would want > from a potentially privacy-sensitive feature.
Well the complexity of the protocol is to allow firefox to download only needed part of the blacklist, without sending the url to google and without downloading a huge list periodically. All the information passed by firefox to google is which chunk of the list it wants do download, this being determined by the beginning of the hash of the url. It would indeed be simpler to send the url.
