So, just got a notification about google’s new enhanced safe browsing. It says: To help protect your account and data, Enhanced Safe Browsing for your account checks for risky: - URLs - Downloads - Browser extensions - System information - Small sample of pages
How it uses it:
- Uses information from Enhanced Safe Browsing to improve your security in Google Chrome and Gmail when you’re signed in.
- Temporarily associates information from Enhanced Safe Browsing with your Google Account when you’re signed in to help protect you across Google apps.
It seems to me as if, whenever they come up with new changes, it’s a double edged sword where they claim everything gets better and safer, while my paranoid mind just sees it as new tricks to get even more data…
It has nothing to do with security, Google Safe Browsing works fine without it and you can use it with alternative DNS services instead.
It is literally just so Google can see everything you do, type, say, etc and by it you give it consent to alter it, for your protection.
Like when it was enabled, it filtered out rt news links, literally removed it from emails and messages, as if they never existed.
What is illegal and immoral changes daily, so it is not just about that particular example. The point is that they can do it.