Chrome will now show a warning before you visit ‘suspicious’ sites
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Google is launching a new browser safety feature for Chrome that aims to keep you better informed about how malicious a website might be before you open it. The suspicious site warnings build on a similar two-stage system introduced for Chrome file downloads in 2024, which provides visually different notifications for blocked files based on whether they’re determined to be “suspicious” or “dangerous.”
For the Chrome site warnings, the feature will flag a website as suspicious if it detects that it has similar qualities to other sites associated with phishing, malware, and scams. Google describes this warning as having a “lower confidence verdict” with possible risk of user harm — meaning there’s a chance it could be incorrectly flagged, but you should only proceed...
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