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Could firefox developers use some other company besides google to block attack sites and web forgeries. Google are leaving zombie cookies.

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Google is using the the "Block reported attack sites" and "Block reported web forgeries" to leave a zombie cookie. This setting is under Menu/Preferences/Security. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/reviews/676076/

Could the developers please use some other service besides google to perform this function? I want to block these issues but I don't trust google. What has google done for firefox anyway?

Google is using the the "Block reported attack sites" and "Block reported web forgeries" to leave a zombie cookie. This setting is under Menu/Preferences/Security. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/reviews/676076/ Could the developers please use some other service besides google to perform this function? I want to block these issues but I don't trust google. What has google done for firefox anyway?

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philipp
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hello, the cookie that google sends when updating the safebrowsing list is sandboxed and seperated from all other cookies, so i cannot be used to track you during webbrowsing. for details see bug 897516...

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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If you discover anyone else offering reputation data that Mozilla could use, I'm sure someone would look into it. But I think Microsoft and the security companies might not be inclined to offer theirs for free...