• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    I’ll stick with Firefox, but thanks anyways.

    Now, Google says it will do a real-time check for sites that it couldn’t find in its database and will then send an encrypted version of the URLs to Fastly’s independently operated privacy server.

    So their idea of protecting privacy is to scan every URL you visit, match it against their database, and then share it with another company? Google … We have very different definitions of what privacy means.

  • Sabata11792
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    That’s literally the opposite of the business model.

    Safe Browsing’s opt-in Enhanced protection mode deals with this by using Google’s Safe Browsing server-side database, which catches unsafe URLs much faster in real time. Yet users must provide Google with more security-related data for full protection, which is why it’s an opt-in mode.

    The privacy part is also untrue.

  • @SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
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    to use Google’s Safe Browsing server-side […] users must provide Google with more security-related data

    Should be illegal, to propagate the opposite of what is true. Of course, if your company and all related are the good guys and everyone else the bad guys, then, only then, this headline makes sense. A bit of a hero complex, selling people privacy infringement, as protection. I can’t even blame the average consumer for believing that, as it’s such so perverted construct and this shilled trash article sells it as positive.

    Hey it’s opt-in, I’m sure Google will not pressure people with pop-ups and fake news, like this one, to enable this setting.

  • Teon
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    We can protect you better… from other companies snooping on you and selling your data like a whore. Now only GOOGLE can exploit you, not anyone else.
    The call is coming from inside the house.

    You’re Welcome!

    • RA2lover
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      Technically their implementation gives Fastly that power instead - but there’s nothing keeping both from being in bed with eachother anyway.

  • Jaysyn
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    If you believe anything Google says, you’re a fucking moron.

    It’s way past time for Google to be split up into competing companies.

  • Jure Repinc
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    23 months ago

    Please could you stop spreading Google lies and propaganda. Instead of this please focus more on good news from GNU/Linux and libre and opensource in general. I have seen way too much GAFAM/BigTech/corporate lies and propaganda being spread here lately.

    • LeoOPMA
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      Unfortunately, even tho you and I don’t use Chrome, the vast majority do, and a sizable chunk of Linux folks do too. It’s relevant, if not completely straightforward.

      If our insistence around places like these on better browsers worked, Firefox wouldn’t be 3% of the market 😭

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The feature, which Google says hides your visited URLs, is now available on the default Standard mode of Safe Browsing on Chrome.

    For years, Chrome’s Safe Browsing feature has automatically added potentially unsafe URLs to a list Google stores on your device.

    Now, Google says it will do a real-time check for sites that it couldn’t find in its database and will then send an encrypted version of the URLs to Fastly’s independently operated privacy server.

    Afterward, it’ll send it to Safe Browsing’s server-side database via a TLS connection that mixes your request with those sent by other Chrome users.

    As a result, throughout the process, Google claims your browsing activity remains private; no single party will be able to see both your IP address and the URL’s hash prefixes.

    The new real-time checking feature for Standard mode is currently available on Chrome for desktop and iOS and will roll out to Android later this month.


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