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.
But Google is already analyzing all emails received. So the only difference is that they actually know which links have been clicked.
The privacy issue is Gmail, not that particular feature.
Yes, I’ve personally noticed this one, and nagging is definitely the right verb. 😓
Imagine using chromium, imaging using gmail
Don’t use Gmail or Chrome
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.
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.
I’m actually quite fond of Chrome (don’t shoot me) 😕 Is it “better” to use Chromium?
Simply, yes.
There is also Cromite.
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
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 👍
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?
