For the past few days, Google has been rolling out a new feature in Gmail and Chrome called Secure Browsing with Enhanced Protection. We advise you to activate it without delay in order to be protected in real time!
For several days, many Internet users have seen appearing above their Gmail inbox, on the Android application and via a Web browser, a small box about a “additional protection against phishing”. This message offers you to“enable the ‘Enhanced Safe Browsing’ feature for extra protection against dangerous emails”. What is it exactly? Should I activate it? It’s very simple, in the face of repeated threats of scams and phishing – which are increasingly sophisticated and inventive -, but also the presence of numerous browser extensions in the Chrome Store, Google is working to add additional layers of security to its services.
Also, the function Improved Safe Browsing provides real-time security scanning to report or block dangerous websites, extensions and downloads, improve its ability to detect phishing attempts and malware, and provide better protection against dangerous links in Google applications. Plus, it notifies you when your passwords are leaked after a data breach. Suffice to say that we strongly advise you to activate it!
Improved Safe Browsing: How to enable it in Gmail and Google Chrome?
Enhanced Safe Browsing is intended to provide real-time protections for your account. It runs automatically in the background “to provide proactive and faster protection against dangerous websites, extensions and downloads“. Standard protection checks the URLs of suspicious sites from a local list that is updated every thirty minutes. Enhanced protection, on the other hand, can detect more complex phishing sites, which have managed to slip through the cracks. , by sending and analyzing in real time the sites containing an unusual URL.
To enable this feature on your Google account, go to this address and move the Safe Browsing with Enhanced Protection switch, which will change to color. To enable the feature on Google Chrome, type chrome://settings/security directly in the browser’s address bar, then, in the Privacy and security tab, activate Enhanced protection instead of Standard protection. And There you go !
