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To provide better security, Google introduced an Enhanced Safe Browsing feature in 2020 that offers real-time protection from malicious sites you are visiting. It does this by checking in real-time against Google’s cloud database to see if a site is malicious and should be blocked.
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Google announced today that it is rolling out the Enhanced Safe Browsing feature to all Chrome users over the coming weeks without any way to go back to the legacy version.
The browser developer says it’s doing this as the locally hosted Safe Browsing list is only updated every 30 to 60 minutes, but 60% of all phishing domains last only 10 minutes. This creates a significant time gap that leaves people are unprotected from new malicious URLs.
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Oh wow! This is neat Google! This is a great distraction from your other invasive and insidious tracking you’re introducing in your browser.
I’ll go redownload Chrome now and give up Firefox.
Yeah, fuck Google on that. I despise the regular Safe Browsing list already as-is. They’ve flagged my domain a few times over the years over false positives, like when Lemmy was taking off and I installed it, it got flagged as impersonating another Lemmy instance. The same happened with a few other self hosted services, because they see an identical login page to other existing domains and mark it as a phishing attempt.
I had to sign up with a developer account just to request reevaluations, so now my domains are linked to my Google Account and they know everything about me. No feedback whatsoever, they just unblocked it after the appeal. No apology, no tips to prevent it in the future.
Google should absolutely not have the authority of taking down people’s websites on a whim based on an entirely AI based and automated fashion.
At this point, Google only cares about their partners and big companies, all the organic small fish websites no longer matter to them whatsoever. They constantly fuck with YouTubers and Android developers, and now they’re expanding their overreach to the entire damn Internet.
Say no to Google.
obligatory: https://contrachrome.com/
Ah yes, even more phoning home!
