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Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google

Posted by kdawson on from the clickstream-of-the-world dept.

iritant writes "As we were discussing, Gran Paradiso — the latest version of Firefox — is nearing release. Gran Paradiso includes a form of malware protection that checks every URL against a known list of sites. It does so by sending each URL to Google. In other words, if people enable this feature, they get some malware protection, and Google gets a wealth of information about which sites are popular (or, for that matter, which sites should be checked for malware). Fair deal? Not to worry — the feature is disabled by default."

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  1. Oh my GOD! by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google are going to find out what websites are popular. That's information that they simply couldn't otherwise find out unless they ... oooh ... operated the world's most popular search engine.

    Everybody panic!

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  2. the unarticle... by revery · · Score: 5, Funny

    Breaking news: Cheese gives you cancer!!

    Oh wait, no it doesn't... You might still get cancer though...

  3. Re:Fixed that for you. by XenoPhage · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet we wouldn't have half the problems we do now if we just stopped having people.

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  4. Re:Fixed that for you. by Knuckles · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet we wouldn't have half the problems we do now if we just stopped

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  5. Re:Fixed that for you. by 19thNervousBreakdown · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet.

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  6. Re:And Google does it again! by hendridm · · Score: 3, Funny

    Correction:

    That is precisely why I avoid Arial and its ilk whenever possible.

    :)