Google is urging users to activate its Enhanced Safe Browsing feature via numerous alerts in Gmail that keep coming back, even after you acknowledge them.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/7009755

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.

    • ijeff@lemdro.idOPMEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I keep getting it. Saw that it involves sending URLs and noped out of that.

  • cloudy1999@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Articles like this are now almost daily reminders to seek new tools. I’ve been using Gmail since 2004 back when it was by invite. I hate to jump ship now, but goodness, I’m questioning continuing to give Google my money.

    • ijeff@lemdro.idOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Same here. Also now paying for Workspace but have been meaning to look into alternatives. One downside is there’s nothing really offering 5 TB of cloud storage for a similar price.

  • JBloodthorn@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    The old gmail interface has no ads, no nags, and loads a helluva lot faster. It’s accessed through the link in the far bottom right while the interface is loading. Might take a few tries to hit it.

  • shadeless@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Since a few days, lots of German users (and others?) are having problems syncing their third party email accounts with Gmail on Android.

    When this started happening to me, i switched over to k-9 mail. With news like that I’m happy I made the switch. Will either stay with k-9 or check out fairmail next, but won’t be going back to Gmail even if it starts working again.

    • ijeff@lemdro.idOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      FairEmail has been interesting (I like the tracking protections) but its interface is definitely not as polished as K-9.