Osprey – Browser extension that protects you from malicious websites
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Re: Osprey – Browser extension that protects you from malicious websites
#21) Why is this better than using the built in Chrome or Microsoft protections?
2) How do I know this isn't logging every URL I visit back to Osprey?
Re: Osprey – Browser extension that protects you from malicious websites
#3So this extension is feeding a stream of your browsing activity to a bunch of third party services? No thanks.
Re: Osprey – Browser extension that protects you from malicious websites
#41) Why is this better than using the built in Chrome or Microsoft protections? 2) How do I know this isn't logging every URL I visit back to Osprey?
On 2, it appears to be open source so you could look and see if/what it logs.
Re: Osprey – Browser extension that protects you from malicious websites
#5Not sure what this provides that a malicious site list for uBlock Origin provides in a better, more privacy preserving way.
Re: Osprey – Browser extension that protects you from malicious websites
#6How is this different from setting your DNS to a malware-blocking domain provider? For example Cloudflare’s malware dns is 1.1.1.2, Quad9 blocks malware by default with 9.9.9.9.
Re: Osprey – Browser extension that protects you from malicious websites
#71) Why is this better than using the built in Chrome or Microsoft protections? 2) How do I know this isn't logging every URL I visit back to Osprey?
When you enable "Developer mode" in the "Extensions" page of your browser, you can open the developer tools for the extension by clicking the "service worker" link, and from there select the "Network" tab, you will be able all the network requests made by the extension from within its service worker.
Re: Osprey – Browser extension that protects you from malicious websites
#81) Why is this better than using the built in Chrome or Microsoft protections? 2) How do I know this isn't logging every URL I visit back to Osprey?
On 2, it appears to be open source so you could look and see if/what it logs.
I seems to send all urls you visit to Microsoft, Symantec, Emisoft, Webshield, Norton, Gdata Security, and/or BitDefender, depending on your settings. And of course, those URLs can be changed on the next update.
Re: Osprey – Browser extension that protects you from malicious websites
#9I’m curious how much those 7 lists overlap. Surely there must be a lot of unambiguous cases, but I wonder how much is on the margins.
Re: Osprey – Browser extension that protects you from malicious websites
#10ublock Origin already has a feature called "strict blocking" which does the same thing. In fact, the placeholder page that this extension takes you to looks almost exactly the same as the one that ublock origin uses.