Google is enabling Chrome real-time phishing protection for everyone (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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To provide better security, Google introduced an Enhanced Safe Browsing feature in 2020 that offers real-time protection from malicious sites you are visiting. It does this by checking in real-time against Google's cloud database to see if a site is malicious and should be blocked.

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Google announced today that it is rolling out the Enhanced Safe Browsing feature to all Chrome users over the coming weeks without any way to go back to the legacy version.

The browser developer says it's doing this as the locally hosted Safe Browsing list is only updated every 30 to 60 minutes, but 60% of all phishing domains last only 10 minutes. This creates a significant time gap that leaves people are unprotected from new malicious URLs.

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[-] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago

Oh wow! This is neat Google! This is a great distraction from your other invasive and insidious tracking you’re introducing in your browser.

I’ll go redownload Chrome now and give up Firefox.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Beam me up, mothership

[-] Dem_Bo_Sain@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Can I assume you're talking about the new ad system? I see a lot of concern over it, but no real explanations on why it's worse than the current cookie-based identification system. Can you enlighten me?

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