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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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[–] 5453939160@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

But Google is already analyzing all emails received. So the only difference is that they actually know which links have been clicked.

The privacy issue is Gmail, not that particular feature.

[–] forked_bytes@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] elauso@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, such a weird editorialization - it's a huge trade-off, making such a feature completely unacceptable for me personally.