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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    “As Chrome and Gmail will share the urls with Google”.

    Chrome and Gmail are Google. You can replace this with “As Google and Google will share urls with Google” without any loss of accuracy.

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      I think they are specifically saying the apps will share it with the company, but yes, it is very poorly written/ambiguous/seemingly redundant as is. Apps don’t (typically) just send literally everything you do directly to the company.

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    The notification to enable enhanced safe browsing even shows up when you’re accessing Gmail on Firefox. It doesn’t even make any damn sense, this feature only works on Chrome. And of course they’ll never add a “don’t show again” option. Think I might just set Gmail to forward to my Proton account from now on.

    Edit: found an article on how to forward to ProtonMail in case anyone else wants to know how. Seems very easy to do.

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      I’ll keep Gmail for any shit I might want to sign up for and use ProtonMail as my serious email account.

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        Been doing this for a while now.

        I go back to Gmail every now and again to check if I’ve missed anything, it’s just a cesspool of junk and spam.

        Good to be away from it