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You’re right, it doesn’t contact Google every time but it does contact Google periodically, something which many users might not be aware of.

Ideally Firefox wouldn’t rely on contacting any third parties in their default browser configuration.

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No, there's a substantive difference between "contacts Google to run a check on a specific domain" and "contacts Google to update the local database of bad domains". They're not comparable.

And a browser that doesn't contact third parties isn't much of a browser.

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