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.
Don’t use Gmail or Chrome
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.
Yeah just a slight trade-off of sending Google every URL you visit.
god, i hate this shit. i have a lot of stuffed tied to my google accounts but i think i’m at least going to switch email apps.
I still get nagged constantly to add a birthday to my Google account to make sure I am older than 13 or something… To satisfy some dumb law I think. The email account is like 15 years old though. How could I be under 13 if it’s that old?
“As Chrome and Gmail will share the urls with Google”.
Chrome and Gmail are Google. You can replace this with “As Google and Google will share urls with Google” without any loss of accuracy.
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I’m actually quite fond of Chrome (don’t shoot me) 😕 Is it “better” to use Chromium?
Simply, yes.
