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

submitted 1 year 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 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Simply, yes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There is also Cromite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

On Android I just started using kiwi browser a month or two ago it's for android only but it's chromium based and supports extensions which brings ublock and others to mobile.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowser.browser

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the suggestion!

I had a look, and must admit it sets my spidey sense in something of a tingle 🤔

Similarly, their GitHub doesn't seem to have had any changes in the /src project, although this might be because they've moved development to /src.next.

Actually, looking at /src.next, there does seem to be a lot of activity, with issues being closed regularly. Maybe it's just the classic case of devs focusing on dev work and not outward communication or site maintenance.

I'll give it a go at some point and see how it feels 👍