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It's triggered on certain events, like a download or rendering a password field. First off it checks if you're on a domain thats "green" (safe/popular). for the top 100k domains (should be about 90% of browsing) that's just locally loaded and the page doesn't do anything. From there, there's a bunch of heuristics to see if it's on a flagged page. If it's not, so "unknown" a local ML model will run against the text of the page to see if it fits the patterns of a phishing page.

It was training on available datasets and shipped with the extension, so it does the checks in-browser against what it sees in an unknonwn situation.

'twas definitely worth a shot; no worries

Ditto here, it comes and it goes, but I can see this switch doesn't help our overall fail rate.

War will not happen between the US and China (2 economies which are inexorably intertwined) for no other reason than it will be exceedingly bad for business.

On the main point of the article, I do agree that a lot of ideas fly higher in San Francisco than other parts of North America. I see "Highlight" as a good example of this where an app finds a lot of early adopters in a small area but it becomes harder for that kind of ubiquity to happen somewhere people aren't as fascinated by new technology like people outside of the valley are.

I believe that a number of communities like this end up being "geek ghettos" on account of this.

Chrome 25, I got sent to Paypal.

For native iOS it's required.

*edit - my bad, it looks like that's not the primary use.