advertisement in packaged software (e.g. Firefox)

[Florian Weimer]

On 02/12/2014 08:30 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:

> This is slightly different too. The safe browsing list itself is not a ping
> -- it's only pulled down and checked locally. There's only a "ping" when
> there is a match, and that ping uses a hashed partial copy. Google also
> claims in a FAQ that log data is "retained only for a period of weeks",
> although notably they don't say this in the actual privacy policy (which has
> been subsumed into the Chrome browser privacy policy).

If they don't track users, why do they set a cookie that expires in two 
years?  This doesn't add up.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team