Google Chrome improves its reinforced protection function by adding a layer of AI, in order to provide a real -time defense against online threats. But at the price of confidentiality of your navigation data …
Google does everything possible to improve the safety of its Chrome browser and multiplies updates to go in this direction. The Internet browser thus includes many tools aimed at securing its users, such as the IP protection tool, which allows you to hide the IP address of the device without using VPN, or Safety Check, which allows you to check the safety of the safety of Different passwords, and to alert on the browser updates and the presence of malicious extensions.
This time, the Mountain View firm improves its reinforced protection function in order to be able to identify threats in real time and block them by relying on artificial intelligence, whether it be websites, downloads or dangerous extensions. A novelty under construction since last November and which has just been deployed in a stable version with the general public.
Google Chrome reinforced protection: defense without confidentiality
The reinforced protection mode is not new in itself since it has been around for several years now. The novelty comes from the fact that it is now based on AI to be able to fight more effectively against phishing attempts, scams, malicious downloads, including those whose Google would never have been aware.
“If you activate reinforced protection, a large part of the additional protection that you receive comes from advanced AI and automatic learning models designed to identify dangerous URLs engaging in known techniques of phishing, social engineering and scam.explains Google in A blog post.
Reinforced protection must be activated manually by the user. For this, you have to go to the Settings> Confidentiality and security> Safety> Secure navigation> Reinforced protection. Be careful however, this additional safety layer is at the expense of the confidentiality of your navigation data. Google being what it is, it agrees to collect URL of the websites you consult, as well as a “Small sample of the content of the pages, downloads, the activity of extensions and system information” in order to detect possible dangers. The price of security according to Google…