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by Foulest 428 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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SafeBrowsing uses local database AFAIK.
Ah! True. I guess they realized it would be better to do that than have the extra network strain.