It sure is convenient for law enforcement and others to have the ability to immediately get the IP addresses of all visitors to a specific URL. (They just need to circumvent the OHTTP by asking fastly and google to collude...)
I thought Fastly sounded familiar. They're partnering with everybody these days, including Mozilla to push "private" shopping ads in their latest browser shopping feature, and Invisiv in their multi-hop VPN.
Agree, in Vivaldi was the first thing I desactivated in the settings. It's nothing what an good ad/trackerblocker also do (uBO, or the inbuild one in Vivaldi, it also blocks the access to phising or badware pages)
I can only speak for me, not for others. I have put this information for users who use browsers where the Google "Save" Browsing API cannot be disabled and for those who use Google anyway. This way at least they know that they have one Spyware less, if this information is true (at least in the EU)
Safe Browsing is a Google API that's free to use for non-commercial purposes, and allows client applications to look up websites in a database to see whether they pose a known risk.
The Enhanced version has offered more extensive protection using real-time URL lookups and machine learning, though it sends information to Google – which the tech titan claims "is only used for security purposes."
What's more, the Googlers observe, the size of the local list and the need to maintain connectivity for updates can present a challenge for devices that are resource constrained or have intermittent network access.
So in Chrome for desktop and iOS, and Android later this month, the Standard tier of Safe Browsing is getting privacy-preserving, real-time protection.
This requires some technical enhancement like the implementation of an asynchronous mechanism to prevent network calls from blocking page loads and degrading the user experience.
The system works by first looking in a local cache file to see if the website URL to be visited is known to be safe.
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