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by absove 1714 days ago
Wasn't there some google cookie in firefox that couldn't be deleted at some point, related to safe browsing? Then when people kept complaining they just hid it from the UI? I honestly don't know what the situation is now though.
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commoner 1714 days ago
Yes, Google sends a cookie in the responses from its Safe Browsing service. As of Firefox 27 (released in February 2014), Firefox has sandboxed the Google Safe Browsing cookie in a separate cookie jar, isolated from normal web browsing.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368255#c61

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account42 1714 days ago
Giving Google the power to decide what users are and are not allowed to download is another thing that Mozilla should not be doing.

Guess what Mozilla's response is when Google lists something they shouldn't? "Take it up with Google". And you think Google supports those who they defame better than their usual customers? No. This is not a hypothetical scenario.

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