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Hm, so is my Firefox getting this list directly from Google or how does it work?


Yes, Firefox downloads a list of suspicious sites from Google every 30 minutes. It uses the Google Safe Browsing Protocol --

https://code.google.com/p/google-safe-browsing/wiki/Protocol...


Nitpick: it's a list of hashes of suspicious URLs.




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