Foulest

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   by Foulest 1y ago

   Ah! True. I guess they realized it would be better to do that than have the extra network strain.
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   by Foulest 1y ago

   This is true, and they do. I'm replacing Comodo's Valkyrie API with Symantec's Browser Protection API for performance reasons. But, no data is logged, and only the minimum amount of data is sent to each provider.
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   by Foulest 1y ago

   uBlock Origin's filters aren't up-to-date. You can go to PhishTank and try all the recently added websites on a VM. uBlock won't block any of them.
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   by Foulest 1y ago

   Osprey is entirely asynchronous. It doesn't hold pages at all. If you visit an unsafe website, you might see it for 50-250ms before the connection is stopped.
5. 5.▲
   by Foulest 1y ago

   I promise the warning page was made from scratch!
6. 6.▲
   by Foulest 1y ago

   1) Osprey is just more protections built into one. It combines seven pre-existing safe browsing extensions you can already download into one lighter and better extension. All these extensions do is send the URL you visit to an API. That&#x2
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   by Foulest 1y ago

   Thanks gorhill. Yes, this is true! Osprey only sends its stripped-down URLs to the services you turn on. Nothing more. It's as anonymous as it can be without using a VPN, afaik.
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   by Foulest 1y ago

   It uses the same exact framework as Google SafeBrowsing and Microsoft SmartScreen.
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   by Foulest 1y 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.