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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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    your garbage!!! oh noes! then... your poop from your toilet!!! oh noes!! ah well who cares free food and electricity for stalking me.

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