[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#783999: Should not disable "safe browsing" mechanism

[Michael Gilbert]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 09:39:08PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
>> >>From the changelog:
>> >
>> >  [ Shawn Landden ]
>> >    * Supress first run welcome page.
>> >    * Turn off safebrowsing.
>> >    * Turn off pinging Google on 404 and other HTTP errors.
>>
>> That change disables the setting by default, but the user can still
>> manually go into the preferences and enable it.  My opinion is that
>> this is the correct default behavior.
>
> As noted in my original mail, the safe browsing mechanism does not
> consult a third-party service for every URL, but rather checks URLs
> against a periodically-updated filter.  See
> https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/whitepaper.html#malware

That link also says that information is indeed sent out.  Until
someone does a detailed code audit, I think this is the safer default.

Best wishes,
Mike