How to use Google Chrome’s Enhanced Safe Mode
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As soon as you dip a virtual toe in online waters, you are exposing yourself to danger, whether from suspicious link, sophisticated downloads, crawlers, or something else. The good news is that our web browsers have evolved to become safer and more knowledgeable.
If Google Chrome is your browser of choice, you have access to an enhanced Safe Browsing modethat you might not know: It’s basically like it sounds, an extra layer of protection that you can turn on if you want to be as cautious as possible.
Why is it not enabled by default? Well, when the feature is enabled, you’ll be sharing more data with Google about where you go and what you do online — data that Google says is only kept temporarily before being anonymized, but you can’t be blamed for feeling like you’ve given Google as much data as you currently have.
How Advanced Safe Browsing works
Suspicious downloads can be sent to Google, if you like.
Courtesy of GoogleAdvanced Safe Browsing is intended for “users who require or want a more advanced level of security while browsing the web,” says Google. For example, it uses what Google knows about past security issues to pre-empt new security threats that may not have been cataloged.
More checks will be conducted on the extensions you install and download that you initialize. You will get the option to send files flagged as suspicious to Google for further checking if you are unsure about them. This may mean waiting a little longer for something to install, but this extra caution helps reduce the risk of being detected by malware.
Advanced Safe Browsing works on Chrome’s built-in security measures. For example, as standard, the browser checks the websites you visit against a list of URLs deemed dangerous — the list is updated every 30 minutes. Enable additional security measures and Chrome uses a machine learning model to recognize bad websites even if they’re not on the latest list.
Google says Enhanced Safe Browsing is also better able to thwart attempts to hack your Google account by monitoring a wide range of signals. By default, it will also check to see if your email address and password are part of any data breach leaked on the web — you’ll get a warning if this happens.