Re: Intent to implement: cryptomining and fingerprinting resource blocking

2019-04-01 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
Hi Rik, Sorry for the late reply. On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 10:10 PM Rik Cabanier wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 6:07 AM Ehsan Akhgari > wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 9:39 PM Rik Cabanier, wrote: >> >>> Why are these sites not included in the "safe browsing" service that is >>> used b

Re: Intent to implement: cryptomining and fingerprinting resource blocking

2019-03-22 Thread Rik Cabanier
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 6:07 AM Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 9:39 PM Rik Cabanier, wrote: > >> Why are these sites not included in the "safe browsing" service that is >> used by most browsers? >> That way, everyone would be protected. >> > > Because the relevant part of safe brow

Re: Intent to implement: cryptomining and fingerprinting resource blocking

2019-03-22 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 9:39 PM Rik Cabanier, wrote: > Why are these sites not included in the "safe browsing" service that is > used by most browsers? > That way, everyone would be protected. > Because the relevant part of safe browsing service covers a different set of criteria: https://www.goog

Re: Intent to implement: cryptomining and fingerprinting resource blocking

2019-03-21 Thread Rik Cabanier
Why are these sites not included in the "safe browsing" service that is used by most browsers? That way, everyone would be protected. On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 2:59 PM Steven Englehardt wrote: > Summary: > We are expanding the set of resources blocked by Content Blocking to > include domains found

Intent to implement: cryptomining and fingerprinting resource blocking

2019-03-21 Thread Steven Englehardt
Summary: We are expanding the set of resources blocked by Content Blocking to include domains found to participate in cryptomining and fingerprinting. Cryptomining has a significant impact on a device’s resources [0], and the scripts are almost exclusively deployed without notice to the user [1]. F