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.
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.
The last opt-in feature they introduced would send them your password in certain cases ☹️
Chrome’s ‘Enhanced Spellcheck’ and Edge’s ‘Microsoft Editor’ are exclusively opt-in add-ons that users must explicitly authorize, and while it’s made clear that your data will be sent back to both companies to improve the products, it’s not so obvious that this could include your personally identifiable information (PII).
https://www.techradar.com/news/your-browser-spellchecker-could-be-leaking-your-passwords
Yeah, such a weird editorialization - it’s a huge trade-off, making such a feature completely unacceptable for me personally.
The notification to enable enhanced safe browsing even shows up when you’re accessing Gmail on Firefox. It doesn’t even make any damn sense, this feature only works on Chrome. And of course they’ll never add a “don’t show again” option. Think I might just set Gmail to forward to my Proton account from now on.
Edit: found an article on how to forward to ProtonMail in case anyone else wants to know how. Seems very easy to do.
I’ll keep Gmail for any shit I might want to sign up for and use ProtonMail as my serious email account.
Been doing this for a while now.
I go back to Gmail every now and again to check if I’ve missed anything, it’s just a cesspool of junk and spam.
Good to be away from it
Funny how Firefox can be at least as secure without it having to phone home every time you click on a link.
Usually when this happens, we call it spyware, nuke it from orbit, and find an alternative.
firefox does utilize the lesser version of these google-provided services by default–how it works
Firefox downloads a database of URLs to block. It doesn’t send every URL you open to Google.
I forwarded all my gmail addresses to proton recently. I’m very pleased! It works a lot better than gmail-to-gmail forwarding and the UI is purple! Purple!!
Proton has been great and I recently found out that I get free access to simplelogin.io for email masking with my proton 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.
Imagine using chromium, imaging using gmail
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?
Don’t use Gmail or Chrome
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.
Ah, August’s news story that made me glad I stopped using chrome and gmail. Nice to see you.
I’m actually quite fond of Chrome (don’t shoot me) 😕 Is it “better” to use Chromium?
Simply, yes.
“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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