The Pros and Cons of Google Chrome's Enhanced Safe Browsing Mode
Your security is improved, but there are some drawbacks, too.
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Your security is improved, but there are some drawbacks, too.
If you have visited the Chrome Web Store recently, you may have noticed that many extensions show up with a featured and established publisher badge on the Store.
Enhanced Safe Browsing will now offer additional protection for users when they install a new extension from the Chrome Web Store
June 3rd, 2021 Google is beefing up the protections in Chrome's Enhanced Safe Browsing mode, which the company rolled out in 2020 to add an extra layer of security. It'll add new features centered around extensions and downloads. If you have Enhanced Safe Browsing switched on and you're about to install an extension from the Chrome Web Store that isn't part of a trusted list, you'll see a popup informing you of that. Currently, around 75 percent of extensions are considered trusted. To have their extensions designated as such, developers need to abide by the Chrome Web Store Developer Program...