Google has announced two new features aimed at protecting users from deceptive and malicious websites:
A new type of warning that will direct users away from sites that have confusing URLs (e.g., typosquatting sites), and
A new extension that will warn about potentially dodgy sites and make it easy for users to report them to Google Safe Browsing.
Reporting suspicious sites has been made easier
While the warning works by comparing the URL of the page users are currently on to URLs of pages they’ve recently visited, the Suspicious Site Reporter extension takes into consideration a number of things when assessing whether a site might be suspicious:
While the decision to flag a site that is not among the 5,000 most popular ones as potentially suspicious might be questionable, there is no do ..
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