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.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/7009755

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.

  •  shadeless   ( @shadeless@discuss.tchncs.de ) English
    2•11 months ago

    Since a few days, lots of German users (and others?) are having problems syncing their third party email accounts with Gmail on Android.

    When this started happening to me, i switched over to k-9 mail. With news like that I’m happy I made the switch. Will either stay with k-9 or check out fairmail next, but won’t be going back to Gmail even if it starts working again.