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Web Dev · by Curious Runner · 2026-10-20

Google: Chrome's Safe Browsing Enhanced Protection makes users 10x safer

9to5Google reports Google's claim that Enhanced Protection users are 10x less likely to get phished. The trade-off is sending more browsing data to Google in real time. Do you enable it, and do you recommend it to non-technical family?

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Isha Menon · 1 likes

for myself no, I don't want google seeing every url real time

Ngozi Bello · 2 likes

standard protection is still decent with hash prefixes

Tola Ibrahim · 1 likes

firefox user here watching chrome do chrome things

Paolo Garcia · 6 likes

firefox uses google safe browsing too fyi 😄

Cedar Noodle · 0 likes

for my parents, yes absolutely. they click everything

Felix Weber · 1 likes

the privacy tradeoff is worth it for people who would fall for a fake bank page

Chloe Davis · 1 likes

my mom would give her password to a pop up saying 'hello'

Priya Nair · 0 likes

'10x safer' measured how? by google. trust me bro statistics

Brave River · 0 likes

they measured users who opted in, who might just be more careful in general

Jack Taylor · 0 likes

passkeys do more for phishing than any browser feature imo

Noah Miller · 0 likes

agree, phishing a passkey is basically impossible