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by magicalist 4753 days ago
No, it doesn't. I've detailed how safe browsing works in Chrome, Firefox and Safari works before[1]. tl;dr only partial hashes are exchanged, so you can't reverse it even if you really wanted to.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5588362

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Yes it does. Check this page out [1] and this stackoverflow question.[2]

"If a file isn’t from a known source, Chrome sends the URL and IP of the host and other meta data, such as the file’s hash and binary size, to Google."

[1] http://blog.chromium.org/2012/01/all-about-safe-browsing.htm...

[2] http://superuser.com/questions/387724/how-to-disable-downloa...