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by mfrisbie 425 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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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.
SafeBrowsing uses local database AFAIK.
Ah! True. I guess they realized it would be better to do that than have the extra network strain.