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Google introduces three new Enhanced Safe Browsing Protection features in Chrome on Oct 20, 2026. The browser now shares visited webpages and clipboard content with servers to detect scams like ClickFix. Google states it strips personally identifiable information before sharing data and does not retain it for AI training.
Google announced Chrome's Safe Browsing Enhanced Protection mode today, claiming it makes users ten times safer from scams than Standard Protection. The update adds suspicious site warnings and leverages Gemini models for scam detection while processing page content ephemerally without logging or training data. Enhanced Protection was introduced in 2020 and was enabled by 1 billion users in 2025.
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