> Phishing and Malware Protection works by checking the sites that you visit against lists of reported phishing, unwanted software and malware sites. These lists are automatically downloaded and updated every 30 minutes or so when the Phishing and Malware Protection features are enabled.
Although it seems they're still doing that for files:
> In addition to the regular list updates mentioned above, when using Malware Protection to protect downloaded files, Firefox may communicate with Mozilla's partners to verify the safety of certain executable files. In these cases, Firefox will submit some information about the file, including the name, origin, size and a cryptographic hash of the contents, to the Google Safe Browsing service which helps Firefox determine whether or not the file should be blocked.
I work for Mozilla (on Firefox) and I was around when phishing protection was introduced. Pretty sure it never did that. Not leaking the user's visit has always been a top priority for us.
> Although it seems they're still doing that for files:
What exactly do you mean by "that"? What you quoted below for certain executable downloaded files never applied to phishing protection, I don't think.
Maybe it was removed after August, but it was in Firefox only a few months ago.
And for the record, FF android prioritizes Google searches over history leading to accidentally visiting the Google search for a web page I often frequent.
That doesn't seem to say anything about what gets transmitted to or from Google? Certainly it's not your visited URLs.
> And for the record, FF android prioritizes Google searches over history leading to accidentally visiting the Google search for a web page I often frequent.
For search suggestions we send what you've typed, not full URLs. I'm not sure what happens when pasting a URL but I would recommend using Paste & Go in that case. Search suggestions can be disabled too in the app settings.
Chrome now sends all of your URL's you are viewing to Google by default.
So does Edge, to Microsoft.
Big Tech is Malicious.