馃挊Mar 5

For the last few months, #Google has been blocking Safe Browsing requests via our (#IronFox) API key. They claim this is due to us hitting their (very limited) usage quotas.

We've filled out their form to request additional quota several times, and have never heard a response back.

Does anyone have any ideas/thoughts/suggestions on how we can get this fixed? Any help/support would be greatly appreciated. It's becoming a major issue that's compromising the safety of our users (by leaving them more exposed to malware/phishing/etc).

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@celenity Don't worry. Ironfox is a browser for grownups. No need for a Google nanny.

How about making this feature opt-in on Ironfox?

Mar 5 at 8:09amWeb
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@switchingsoftware @celenity "grownups" can also be ancient hoes that can't read that something is a sponsored result
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@switchingsoftware Firefox鈥檚 implementation of Safe Browsing is FOSS and privacy-respecting. We take additional measures to further improve its privacy, by proxying connections as part of it to avoid directly connecting to/exposing IP addresses to Google, as well as disabling the submission of file metadata to Google. We also have a UI setting to enable/disable Safe Browsing, and we added an option to control it on the onboarding as well, so that users are aware and can easily enable/disable it if desired.

For more details on our implementation, see our documentation here: https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/blob/v146.0/docs/Safe-Browsing.md.

It鈥檚 deeply unfortunate that there isn鈥檛 yet a viable alternative to Safe Browsing - relying on Google at all is obviously far from ideal (maybe this is up the alley of someone like @quad9dns?? please make it happen 馃檹). But, in the meantime we take the necessary measures to protect the privacy of users, while of course ensuring you鈥檙e always in control and have the ability to enable or disable it to your liking.

docs/Safe-Browsing.md 路 v146.0 路 IronFox OSS / IronFox 路 GitLab

Private, secure, user first web browser for Android. https://ironfoxoss.org/

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