Osprey – Browser extension that protects you from malicious websites

CHEF-KOCH | 22 points

So this extension is feeding a stream of your browsing activity to a bunch of third party services? No thanks.

mfrisbie | 2 days ago

Not sure what this provides that a malicious site list for uBlock Origin provides in a better, more privacy preserving way.

_Algernon_ | 2 days ago

How is this different from setting your DNS to a malware-blocking domain provider? For example Cloudflare’s malware dns is 1.1.1.2, Quad9 blocks malware by default with 9.9.9.9.

SamuelAdams | 2 days ago

I don't like the fact that it's sending all websites a user visits to a bunch of companies, specially companies that are not EU based.

wopurs | a day ago

1) Why is this better than using the built in Chrome or Microsoft protections?

2) How do I know this isn't logging every URL I visit back to Osprey?

xnx | 2 days ago

ublock Origin already has a feature called "strict blocking" which does the same thing. In fact, the placeholder page that this extension takes you to looks almost exactly the same as the one that ublock origin uses.

true_blue | 2 days ago

I’m curious how much those 7 lists overlap. Surely there must be a lot of unambiguous cases, but I wonder how much is on the margins.

alwa | 2 days ago

Does it protect you from malicious extensions including possible future versions of itself? :)

throwaway290 | 2 days ago