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.

  • cloudy1999@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Articles like this are now almost daily reminders to seek new tools. I’ve been using Gmail since 2004 back when it was by invite. I hate to jump ship now, but goodness, I’m questioning continuing to give Google my money.

    • LuckyDuck@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      I moved my custom domain this past weekend because Google sent me a notice that my pricing was about to double to $18/month for 3 email addresses. I’m s absurd and I’m still pissed they rugged pulled us on the custom domains after many years of using their services. They kept adding “value added features” that I don’t care about to justify their pricing and all I wanted was email. Takeout.google.com to download your mailboxes.

    • ijeff@lemdro.idOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Same here. Also now paying for Workspace but have been meaning to look into alternatives. One downside is there’s nothing really offering 5 TB of cloud storage for a similar price.