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Fraud protection or privacy intrusion?

All the new Web browsers comes with built-in phishing protection. The way these operates is by checking the URLs you are visiting with centralized black-lists, and then warn you if they either suspect something or have the current site on their black lists.

Opera 9.1 has it, Internet Explorer 7 has it, Firefox 2 has it… But is this not a privacy intrusion more than consumer protection?

I think it is my internet service provider's job to check and make these black-lists. I do not need yet another party to know about all the URLs I visit. Seriously! That consumer information is valuable, of course. But it is also my life, my habits and my own damn consumption habits!

Personally I have disabled my browser's phishing filtering as my DNS provider also checks for suspected phishing activities when I do the domain lookup. Sound interesting? Their name is OpenDNS and they are nice guys, providing really fast and secure DNS services.

Copyright © 2007 Daniel Aleksandersen 2007-02-14 at 02:02

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