Re: Potential privacy issues of not showing suggestions in certain contexts

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 2:58 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 7:35:35 PM UTC-7, Andrew Sutherland wrote:
> > A possibly good/possibly bad side effect is that this could allow the
> > brands to not explicitly say which websites they don't want to be
> > associated with.
> This concept has come up in some discussions around whether it's okay for
> us to ship a list of adult/porn sites as clear text with Firefox. If we do
> want to prevent users from having a list of questionable sites on their
> computer, using a bloom filter can indeed avoid the problem.
>
> Having a list could power other features such as porn-browser or the
> opposite with parental-control browser. Although not quite the topic of
> discussion here.
>
> Do people have thoughts on whether it's okay to have a plaintext list of
> sites either as source or packaged as part of Firefox?


Is there a reason not to use the same techniques we use for safe browsing?

-Ekr