How to Turn on Enhanced Safe Browsing in Google Chrome – How-To Geek

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Privacy and security are big concerns when it comes to web browsers. Google has some built-in tools in Chrome that attempt to make browsing safer. Enhanced Safe Browsing is one such tool,and well show you how to use it.

Safe Browsing is a list of dangerous URLs thats maintained by Google and used to protect users from malicious sites. Enhanced Safe Browsing builds upon this feature with some additional tools.

WithEnhanced Safe Browsing enabled, Chrome shares even more browsing data with Google. This allows for threat assessments to be more accurate and proactive, though it does present a privacy concern in itself.

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From Googles description, Enhanced Safe Browsing enables the following:

Enhanced Safe Browsing is available for Chrome on desktop and Android. Its not available for iPhone and iPad. The process for enabling it is very similar on both platforms.

First, select the three-dot menu icon in the top-right corner of the Google Chrome web browser and choose Settings from the menu.

Next, go to the Privacy and Security section of the Settings.

On the desktop, click Security. On Android, its called Safe Browsing.

Select the radio button to enable Enhanced Protection.

Thats it! You wont notice anything different in your everyday browsing, but youll now have better protection. In the event that something is amiss, Google Chrome will give you a warning.

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