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Maybe those web browsers are linked to a online URL database. If any URL is matched in the database, then they will refuse to load the page.

But if true, that also means those web browsers are querying a online database when user is trying to access a URL.

Not a good news no matter how you hold it.

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Doesn't Chrome and Firefox do the same for known malicious websites? IIRC they use hashes and / or a local database of hashes, but I can't be sure. Pretty sure that caused major controversy in its earlier days too.

It checks a bloom filter.

Yes, they download a database of forbidden sites from Google (SafeBrowsing) [1]

[1] https://safebrowsing.google.com/

Yeah no doubt that would be concerning.

Sadly not surprising.

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