Open Bug 1196995 Opened 9 years ago Updated 3 months ago

More efficient entity list for tracking protection

Categories

(Toolkit :: Safe Browsing, enhancement, P5)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Safe Browsing
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
REOPENED

People

(Reporter: francois, Unassigned)

References

Details

The current approach to group all of the URLs related to a single entity (for tracking protection purposes) is to use a pairwise allowlist (bug 1141352).

This approach is inefficient (from a bandwidth / memory usage point of view) in the presence of large entities.

One proposal (thanks ekr) is to steal a few bits from the blacklist entries to encode an entity ID: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1141352#c6

Another proposal is to not use the Safe Browsing infrastructure at all for the entity list and instead deliver the list to Firefox using http://kinto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/.
Summary: More efficient entity list → More efficient entity list for tracking protection
Component: DOM: Security → Safe Browsing
Product: Core → Toolkit
Priority: -- → P5
Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → INACTIVE
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: INACTIVE → ---
Severity: normal → S3
Type: defect → enhancement
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