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Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Don't use Gmail or Chrome

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll keep Gmail for any shit I might want to sign up for and use ProtonMail as my serious email account.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm actually quite fond of Chrome (don't shoot me) 😕 Is it "better" to use Chromium?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Simply, yes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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