On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 09:39:08PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> >>From the changelog: >> > >> > [ Shawn Landden ] >> > * Supress first run welcome page. >> > * Turn off safebrowsing. >> > * Turn off pinging Google on 404 and other HTTP errors. >> >> That change disables the setting by default, but the user can still >> manually go into the preferences and enable it. My opinion is that >> this is the correct default behavior. > > As noted in my original mail, the safe browsing mechanism does not > consult a third-party service for every URL, but rather checks URLs > against a periodically-updated filter. See > https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/whitepaper.html#malware
That link also says that information is indeed sent out. Until someone does a detailed code audit, I think this is the safer default. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
