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Re:Privacy online just got easier with today’s Firefox release by s_ting765 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:17AM (#33248586)
Believe it. Firefox is kind of unbeaten in this regard.

There was a study carried out on what kinds of data leaks on browsers during launch [0] but Chromium specifically wasn't measured. I can only infer Safe browsing to be a leak point available on Chromium since it is shipped by default but I have it turned off (never needed it anyway) so I have not observed any pings related to it personally.

[0] https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf

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Re:Privacy online just got easier with today’s Firefox release by insanitybit on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:47PM (#33253672)
SafeBrowsing V2 only sends a partial hash to Google, only sending the full hash if the partial has a match. You can just read Chromium's whitepaper on their various features if you want to understand the privacy implications.
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