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		clarkevans on Aug 22, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Studying how Firefox can collect additional data i... > Don't collect URLs, but only top-level+1 domains (e.g. images.google.com) Do you consider images.google.com to be eTLD+1? The eTLD would be .com; so, eTLD+1 would be google.com; and hence, images.google.com would be eTLD+2? eTLD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List

kannanvijayan on Aug 22, 2017 | [–]

Yeah, you're right. Thanks for the correction. It's eTLD+1, I just erroneously used images.google.com as an example.

BenjiWiebe on Aug 22, 2017 | [–]

This is clearly an example of the infamous off-by-one error.

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