Enhanced Safe Browsing

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Papanca@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨privacyguides@lemmy.one⁩

So, just got a notification about google’s new enhanced safe browsing. It says: To help protect your account and data, Enhanced Safe Browsing for your account checks for risky: - URLs - Downloads - Browser extensions - System information - Small sample of pages

How it uses it:

Uses information from Enhanced Safe Browsing to improve your security in Google Chrome and Gmail when you’re signed in.
Temporarily associates information from Enhanced Safe Browsing with your Google Account when you’re signed in to help protect you across Google apps.

It seems to me as if, whenever they come up with new changes, it’s a double edged sword where they claim everything gets better and safer, while my paranoid mind just sees it as new tricks to get even more data…

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Eerie187@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m surprised anyone on privacy guides would still be using Google. That notification alone would make me want to switch

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TairikuOkami@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It has nothing to do with security, Google Safe Browsing works fine without it and you can even use it with alternative DNS services.

It is literally just so Google can see everything you do, type, say, etc and it you also give it consent to alter, for your protection.

Like when it was enabled, it filtered out rt news links, literally removed it from emails and messages, as if they never existed.

What is illegal and immoral changes daily, so it is not just about that particular example. The point is that they can do it.

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db2@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I turned it off, it got in the way.

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- Papanca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I didn’t switch it on, i hope i’m alert enough to spot all phishing attempts. However, i have to admit that reading about AI getting used more and more for malicious scams, makes me pretty nervous. I can easily recognize scams and also read about them to stay up to date, but i don’t know if i will be able to spot them in the future.
  
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WeLoveCastingSpelz@lemmy.fmhy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Just use startpage it scrapes the results from google

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- Eerie187@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Weren’t they brought by an ad company?
  
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- Papanca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I have been using startpage for years :-)
  
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