Canadian’s aren’t allowed to be safe?

Browsing around, read a couple blog entries about it, see another link for it so I decide to check it out. Google’s new “Safe Browsing” Firefox extension sounds like a great idea. Any page you go to that asks you for information, this extension will tell you if the site is doing anything sneaky, or if there are a large number of complains against the site (or so I’ve read). I wasn’t terribly interested in using it full time, but figured it was my IT duty to at least check it out. Clicking on the .xpi link sends me to this page: Not Available. At first I was upset that it would only be available to the US and not Canadians. Upon further pondering, I realized that every page I go to, this extension is going to query Google with the full URL, and let them know what pages I’m browsing. This is a pretty big security/privacy concern that not many people seem concerned about. Of course, this sort of information is what makes Google so good at what they do.