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.
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
Ah, August’s news story that made me glad I stopped using chrome and gmail. Nice to see you.
I revently migrated to Skiff Mail, which has a better free plan than Proton. Check out Privacyguides.org for more info about keeping yourself safe
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.
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?
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.
