{"id":172108,"date":"2025-09-27T03:47:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/172108\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T03:47:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:47:32","slug":"make-chrome-safer-against-scam-sites-by-flipping-on-this-ai-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/172108\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Chrome safer against scam sites by flipping on this AI feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s Chrome browser has a feature called <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=111346X1569483&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https:\/\/support.google.com\/chrome\/answer\/9890866?hl=en&amp;xcust=2-1-2922320-1-0-0-0-0&amp;sref=https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2922320\/make-chrome-safer-against-scam-sites-by-flipping-on-this-ai-feature.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-subtag=\"2-1-2922320-1-0-0-0-0\" data-domain-name=\"google\" target=\"_blank\">Enhanced Safe Browsing<\/a> that uses real-time AI-powered techniques to protect users against online threats. Unlike the more basic Safe Browsing feature, which compares visited addresses against a database of known dangerous sites, Enhanced Safe Browsing uses AI to recognize yet-unknown threats.<\/p>\n<p>Google hasn\u2019t published exact details on how Enhanced Safe Browsing works, only vague explanations like \u201cin-depth scans for suspicious downloads\u201d and \u201cimproves security for you and everyone on the web.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Enhanced Safe Browsing is less private than standard Safe Browsing. Enhanced Safe Browsing \u201csends the URLs of sites you visit and a small sample of page content, downloads, extension activity, and system information to Google Safe Browsing to check if they\u2019re harmful\u201d and \u201cthis data is linked to your Google Account to protect you across Google services, for example increasing protection in Gmail\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Chrome-browser-security-settings-for-Enhanced-Safe-Browsing.jpg\" alt=\"Chrome browser security settings for Enhanced Safe Browsing\" class=\"wp-image-2922483\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tGoogle Chrome has a new AI-powered feature called Enhanced Safe Browsing that\u2019s designed to protect users against dangerous sites and downloads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCredit\">Joel Lee \/ Foundry<\/p>\n<p>Still, if you want real-time protection against zero-day threats like malware and fraudulent sites, you\u2019ll be better protected with Enhanced Safe Browsing enabled. But Enhanced Safe Browsing isn\u2019t enabled by default, so you\u2019ll have to enable it manually if you want it.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, click on the three-dot menu at the top-right of the browser, then navigate to Settings &gt; Privacy and security &gt; Safe Browsing and select \u201cEnhanced protection.\u201d Use the arrow button on the right side to open up explanations for each setting level.<\/p>\n<p>Further reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2015312\/10-essential-tips-to-make-google-chrome-more-secure.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Must-known tips to make Chrome more secure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on our sister publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcwelt.de\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">PC-WELT<\/a> and was translated and localized from German.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Chrome browser has a feature called Enhanced Safe Browsing that uses real-time AI-powered techniques to protect users&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-172108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}