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Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The difference between the two security features is that Safe Browsing will compare a visited site to a locally stored list of domains, compared to Enhanced Safe Browser, which will check if a site is malicious in real-time against Google's cloud services.

While it may seem like Enhanced Safe Browsing is the better way to go, there is a slight trade-off in privacy, as Chrome and Gmail will share URLs with Google to check if they are malicious and temporarily associate this information with your signed-in Google account.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm actually quite fond of Chrome (don't shoot me) 😕 Is it "better" to use Chromium?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Simply, yes.

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