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You Should Enable This Chrome Feature That Flags Suspicious Websites
Lifehacker • • technology
Key Points:
- Google Chrome's new Enhanced Protection mode in Safe Browsing offers warnings for suspicious websites that resemble known malicious sites, helping users avoid potential malware, phishing, and scams.
- Unlike the full-page red alerts for confirmed dangerous sites, the new suspicious site warnings are smaller pop-ups that give users options to mark the site as safe or return to safety.
- Enhanced Protection uses real-time AI analysis to check browsing activity and provides more proactive security compared to standard protection, which relies on periodically updated lists of unsafe sites.
- Enabling Enhanced Protection requires sharing more browsing data with Google, linked to the user's Google Account, to facilitate improved threat detection.
- Users can activate Enhanced Protection in Chrome settings to benefit from these advanced safety features, while standard protection and no protection options remain available.
