Gervase Markham

OK, so can we merge this then? :-)

Yes, this feature sends to Google the same information that you send to Google any time you visit one of the > 50% of websites in the world which include...

Without using Tor, you can't block every website you visit from knowing your IP address. You could spoof your user agent to claim you were using a Commodore 64, but...

aidecoe: Quite possibly. But that's not what the safe browsing feature does. It downloads a list of bad websites that users shouldn't visit from Google, and then locally compares each...

Safe Browsing checks sites on the fly, but not against a remote source. It checks against the local source. (It used to be that you could turn on remote checking...

The current text says a number of factually incorrect things about Firefox, which is unfair. Can this pull request get some attention? :-)

As that bug report (resolved FIXED) clearly shows, it hasn't leaked authentication cookies since Firefox 27, released in February 2014.

Gitoffthelawn: so you think we spent all the time engineering a privacy mechanism for this that doesn't work? It would be nice if we could dispense with the climate of...

" Especially the UA string, which in today's world of long UA strings, diversity of hardware and software, and machine intelligence, is a very good predictor of user identity." You...

It's a little rich for you ask me to take it down a notch; everything I've said, based upon my knowledge of Mozilla and my own checking, has been met...