Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing

Technology@beehaw.org – 225 points – 1 years ago

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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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.