Dear Maintainer,
I was curious about the following excessive access to the url GET
http://safebrowsing-cache.google.com/safebrowsing/... and realized
it
was coming from firefox by having the "Block reported attack
sites/web
forgeries" option. I consider this network spam a bit of a security
risk considering all the skullduggery going on with the net these
days, at the very least the menu option should explicltly state
that it
will bombard google with requests for this data.

Why does it matter that the data comes from google specifically?
BTW, it's only downloading a list or a delta if you already have a list
locally. It's not sending anything related to your browsing. If you
click on help, you're brought to a page that explains the settings, and
which contains a link to a page explaining how the feature works.

Mike

src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.

Andreas