Opera to Start Phoning Home?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 20, 2006 @05:46AM from the they-know-what's-good-for-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Near the end of a story about Opera's determination to stay in the game: 'Earlier this week, Opera announced an addition that will keep it in step with its rivals. Johan Borg, a developer working on the browser, said Tuesday in a blog that the next edition, Opera 9.1, will include beefed up anti-phishing and anti-fraud features. Rather than simply indicate that a site is secure with a notation in the address bar, Opera 9.1 will also query Opera-owned servers for information on any site visited. Those that Opera has identifies as fraudulent will be automatically blocked by the browser.'"

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Re:secure...says opera? by Espinas217 · 2006-10-20 06:42 · Score: 0, Redundant

From the blog
When you browse to a site you have not visited before, the browser sends a request for site information to our server. The requests contains the domain name of the site and a hash value of the URL. We don't send the full URL, but we need a fingerprint of the full URL in case you visit a dangerous page on a site that is otherwise harmless.
See, their not tracking every page, just a domain and a hash. Besides you can turn it off whenever you want.

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Re:secure...says opera? by flyingfsck · 2006-10-20 11:59 · Score: 0, Redundant

Well, obviously THEY know what the hash mean.

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