Post #1825606
2026-01-25 15:32 UTC
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@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social 2026-01-25 15:34
@germanfr @IzzyOnDroid This is Google "Safe browsing". Even Firefox has it enabled by default. So yes, this is Google. As I understand it your browser downloads a list of banned sites from Google every now and then. So not actively scanning what you browse (though they can do that for most sites with all the trackers they have), but I have to be honest I don't know all the details on "Google Safe Browsing". Documentation is scarce.
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@Stomata@procial.tchncs.de 2026-01-25 15:36
@germanfr@social.linux.pizza @IzzyOnDroid@floss.social Google maintain a list of so called 'malware' sites. Most mainstream browser blocks sites on that list. That is what happening. The list is now trash
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@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social 2026-01-25 15:36
@germanfr It's a "feature" called "Google Safebrowsing". In intervals, it downloads allegedly malicious URLs to your browser, which then compares each visited URL against those. Google isn't hosting our repo – we do that (currently at Hetzner in Germany). But yes: this way, Google has the power to decide which pages you're allowed to see – and which… not. In this current case, one could count that as anti-competitive, and a violation of DMA.