Google is urging users to activate its Enhanced Safe Browsing feature via numerous alerts in Gmail that keep coming back, even after you acknowledge them.

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.

    •  renard_roux   ( @renard_roux@beehaw.org ) English
      1•11 months ago

      Thanks for the suggestion!

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

      Their website says “© 2019 - 2021”, and the blog has a single post from 2019. Similarly, the knowledge base has one single post.

      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 👍