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Yay, another shitty feature to disable in about:config.

Signature based systems are still useless. And you send more data to google!

(Yes, yes they probably download lists and don't directly send the hash. The lists are most likely still sharded enough to get an idea, as it is with the regular safe browsing crap)



Useless? Except that they aren't. Because the vast majority of users are only ever downloading very popular things which have already been scanned and confirmed safe. We're edge cases.


Why don't you read the article and research the system before commenting on it? Almost every single thing you say in your post is wrong.


These new features depend on general Safebrowsing to be turned on, so you shouldn't need to turn off anything new...


> Yay, another shitty feature to disable in about:config.

As a minor plus, if you've already disabled the existing blocking options in previous versions of Firefox, then these new ones are automatically disabled.


Do you have a better solution, then? Signature-based is very effective for known malwares out there. There is not much a browser can do without becoming a full-blown AV scanner.




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