I didn't "understand" anything incorrectly -- I made zero attempt to understand the feature. How many times do I have to quote the word "assume"? I ASSUMED the worst without knowing anything about the feature, based on my prior experience with "protecting the user" features and the way megacorps treat their users. I thought "probably sends my stuff to their servers" and unchecked the box. Again, for the nth time, I have made no concrete assertion as to the actual functioning of the feature. The only misinformation here has been your repeated misrepresentation of what I communicated.

Sorry, let me restate my original post then:

I ASSUME that you're completely wrong about Safe Browsing and have no idea what you're talking about. I ASSUME you're intentionally posting misinformation on the internet. I ASSUME you're as evil as Adolf Hitler.

If you prove that what I ASSUMED is demonstrably false, I'll just fall back on saying it's an assumption so that makes being wrong completely ok (and it means that you are misrepresenting me when you call that out)!

Ah man... I mean, at no time did I indicate or suggest how Safe Browsing works. What I communicated to the world is that I am making a totally subjective judgement of a feature, perhaps totally ignorantly, without any suggestion of correlation with reality. For some reason, you missed this subtlety of me saying "I assume [thing does blah]". I'm not out here trying to convince anyone that Safe Browsing does bad things. I pretty clearly said I, myself, in my own head, made a subjective decision about the feature. That's all I said! Come back to this thread in a day or month or year and realize I was pretty forthright/honest and communicating in good faith the entire time.

Please stop misrepresenting what I said and reacting vocally as a result of your misunderstanding. I didn't assert that you were wrong. I _assume_ you have no idea what you're talking about.

I would appreciate if you stop acting like I was asserting something when I clearly was ASSUMING it, I even put ASSUME in all caps in my comment to make it clear.

These words you posted are a direct assertion: "when someone posts such blatantly false information", in regards to my comment. I didn't post false information, thus you misrepresented what I said. Please spend more time understanding the words people write before you respond to them in an inflammatory manner.

I clearly restated my original post here in a way that contains only assumptions and not assertions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33528294 - so I don't know why you're mad at me.

I can't edit my original post anymore, but just replace it in your mind with my edited version. Also, please spend more time understanding the words people write before you respond to them in an inflammatory manner.

Guess what. Nobody cares about your assumptions that are demonstrably untrue, as have been explained multiple times in this thread.

The Chromium project's Safe Browsing code is open source: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com...

Of course given your "threat model" you are probably going to assume what's shipped in Chrome could be different from the open source code, but hey you are free to believe in whatever falsehoods you choose to believe in.

That's right. I am free to believe whatever I want, and I am free to share my thoughts directly related to the OP, in a sincere and respectful manner -- quite in contrast with how you've responded. Take your vitriolic sentiments elsewhere.

Dude they use predictive text in the address bar so your point is kinda moot. Yes, they DO see the address you are navigating to when done directly.

Just not in the way you are arguing about.

Given that Safe Browsing is used in other browsers, and that you can disable that feature and/or change your default search engine, yes it does matter.

Also, even if you are using Chrome with the default search settings, there are lots of cases where it would matter. I suspect people would care a lot more about Google logging the URL for their Amazon search for <embarrassing thing they purchase> than when they typed `amazon.com` in their URL bar to get to Amazon.