- cross-posted to:
- google@lemdro.id
- cybersecurity@lemmy.capebreton.social
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.
I use my GMail app and IMAP on desktop anyway so I don’t come across these silly things. Their labels thing still doesn’t make any sense at all.