Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google 296
iritant writes "As we were discussing, Gran Paradiso — the latest version of Firefox — is nearing release. Gran Paradiso includes a form of malware protection that checks every URL against a known list of sites. It does so by sending each URL to Google. In other words, if people enable this feature, they get some malware protection, and Google gets a wealth of information about which sites are popular (or, for that matter, which sites should be checked for malware). Fair deal? Not to worry — the feature is disabled by default."
Oh my GOD! (Score:5, Funny)
Everybody panic!
the unarticle... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh wait, no it doesn't... You might still get cancer though...
Re:Why the concern? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Did I miss the memo? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Fixed that for you. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Oh joy. (Score:1, Funny)
That must be a first. You got bored of your comment before I did!
Re:Fixed that for you. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fixed that for you. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fixed that for you. (Score:5, Funny)
I bet.
Re:And Google does it again! (Score:3, Funny)
Correction:
That is precisely why I avoid Arial and its ilk whenever possible.
:)