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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by fulafel on Thursday July 02, 2020 @12:13AM (#23709945)
I'm not so sure. I think the privacy-functionality trade-off is understood and expected by the users, it woul be used by very few people if it were extremely spartan.

(But this instance, the favicon service, is not a good privacy-functionality trade-off)

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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by bad-apple on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:00AM (#23710683)
What would a browser even need a backend for? The only valid use that I can think of is Google's Safe Browsing list, but if ad blocking can be implemented totally on-device, surely that can, too?
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Re:DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits ... by jeltz on Thursday July 02, 2020 @06:00AM (#23711626)
The use case I was going to suggest was a safe browsing list. Possibly also something like Have I been Pwned. So, yes, there are valid reasons to have a backend but they are very narrow and privacy is key when building them.
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