The difference between the two security features is that Safe Browsing will compare a visited site to a locally stored list of domains, compared to Enhanced Safe Browser, which will check if a site is malicious in real-time against Google’s cloud services.

While it may seem like Enhanced Safe Browsing is the better way to go, there is a slight trade-off in privacy, as Chrome and Gmail will share URLs with Google to check if they are malicious and temporarily associate this information with your signed-in Google account.

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    1 year ago

    Funny how Firefox can be at least as secure without it having to phone home every time you click on a link.

    Usually when this happens, we call it spyware, nuke it from orbit, and find an alternative.