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

On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 4:24:17 AM UTC-7, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> Is there a reason not to use the same techniques we use for safe browsing?
That's an interesting possibility, but we've been trying to reduce risk by keeping code relatively self contained within new tab modules. I could definitely see the code refactored to make use of safebrowsing for blacklisting as well as potentially positive matches for triggering a suggested tile. This would definitely be more involved as there would need to be coordination of multiple services on both server and client pieces.

Another tricky aspect is the longer term plans that don't necessarily involve matching at a site level. For example, we might want to trigger independently from sites on search keywords or page titles or path segments. Potentially we could augment safe browsing to allow for that, but that increases risk for other users of safe browsing, and it would be faster to keep with the current delivery mechanism of tiles data.