Google can track surfing habits without need for HTTP cookies
<i>Did you turn on that 'Block dangerous and deceptive content' feature in Firefox' security tab? It works by consulting Google each time you visit a new website. You can imagine the rest.</i><p>Patently wrong. Here's how the API works:<p><i>The Update API lets your client applications download hashed versions of the Safe Browsing lists for storage in a local database. URLs can then be checked locally. Only if a match is found in the local database does the client need to send a request to the Safe Browsing servers to verify whether the URL is included on the Safe Browsing lists.</i><p>From: <a href="https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4/update-api" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4/update-api</a><p>Source: Safe Browsing engineer on Chrome.