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Re:Google Safe Browsing is blocking small Mastodon servers by brenns10 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:41PM (#33527291)
Yeah it's probably an oversight, but that oversight feels particularly irresponsible given that it completely blocks the ability to access web sites (the primary function of a web browser) based on a third-party block list which can't be disabled.
Re:Google Safe Browsing is blocking small Mastodon servers by oynqr on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:48AM (#33527917)
Remember that visited sites are also phoned home to google when the setting is on.
Re:Google Safe Browsing is blocking small Mastodon servers by Gigachad on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @03:58AM (#33528922)
Sure thats true? It would be trivial to just package the whole block list locally.
Re:Google Safe Browsing is blocking small Mastodon servers by Doxin on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:46AM (#33544708)
Last time I checked, which to be fair is a couple years ago now, only a partial hash is shared with google.