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

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Ed Lee <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.


I was only considering a safe browsing-style mechanism for blacklisting.

Note: I'm not suggesting actually using the safe browsing list per se, just
a hash-block
mechanism like is used by safe browsing

-Ekr