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Re:Leaking URLs to the Clown by magicalhippo on Monday June 24, 2024 @09:42PM (#40783397)
Both autosuggest[1] and Safe Browsing[2] sends URLs or "portion of" URLs home to Google.

At least Google is fairly transparent about it, if you look for it. And I'd trust them way more than a tiny company making a "dime a dozen" app.

[1]: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/13730681?hl=en#zipp...

[2]: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/13844634?hl=en&ref_...

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Re:Leaking URLs to the Clown by Dylan16807 on Monday June 24, 2024 @09:56PM (#40783492)
Doesn't safe browsing use a bloom filter to minimize those checks?

Yeah autosuggest is there and it has a toggle. But that's still far from every URL you browse.

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