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mfrisbie
472 days ago
So this extension is feeding a stream of your browsing activity to a bunch of third party services? No thanks.
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Foulest
471 days ago
The same thing happens with Google's SafeBrowsing, Microsoft's SmartScreen, Bitdefender TrafficLight, or Emsisoft Browser Protection. Osprey essentially combines multiple already existing browser protection extensions into one.
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lostmsu
471 days ago
SafeBrowsing uses local database AFAIK.
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Foulest
471 days ago
Ah! True. I guess they realized it would be better to do that than have the extra network strain.
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