Same when you try to deviate from the approved path of email providers or, dog forbid, even self-host email.
This is why I always switch off that “block potentially dangerous sites” setting in my browser - it means Google’s blacklists. This is how Google influences the web beyond its own products.
edit: it’s much more complex than simple blocklists with email
@possiblylinux127@A_norny_mousse ungoogled-chromium disables safe browsing, and for Debian’s chromium package I keep going back and forth about whether to pull that patch in or not.
Same when you try to deviate from the approved path of email providers or, dog forbid, even self-host email.
This is why I always switch off that “block potentially dangerous sites” setting in my browser - it means Google’s blacklists. This is how Google influences the web beyond its own products.
edit: it’s much more complex than simple blocklists with email
I wouldn’t recommend turning off safe browsing
If a page is blocked it is very easy to bypass. However, the warning page will make you take a step back.
For instance, someone could create a fake Lemmy instance at fedit.org to harvest credentials.
just use ublock origin and a proper password manager. google safe browsing means google sees what sites you browse.
@possiblylinux127 @A_norny_mousse ungoogled-chromium disables safe browsing, and for Debian’s chromium package I keep going back and forth about whether to pull that patch in or not.
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Running Debian Stable, I have installed ungoogled-chromium which is also in the repos.
But Librewolf is my main browser, Chromium a rarely used secondary.
What I’m talking about is how these blocklists are used by many other browsers/softwares (e.g. Firefox) as well.
This is why I always don’t use Chrome or Google Search