Manage Enhanced Safe Browsing for your account

Enhanced Safe Browsing for your account can help provide more protection against phishing and malware across Google Chrome and Gmail.

Manage Enhanced Safe Browsing

How Enhanced Safe Browsing for your account works

Enhanced Safe Browsing for your account works automatically in the background to provide faster, proactive protection against dangerous websites, downloads, and extensions.

If you choose to turn on Enhanced Safe Browsing for your account, Enhanced Safe Browsing keeps you safe when you’re signed in and improves your security in Google Chrome and Gmail.

Information Enhanced Safe Browsing uses

To help protect your account and data, Enhanced Safe Browsing for your account checks for risky:

URLs
Downloads
Browser extensions
System information
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How Enhanced Safe Browsing uses this information

Google:

Uses information from Enhanced Safe Browsing to improve your security in Google Chrome and Gmail when you're signed in.
Temporarily associates information from Enhanced Safe Browsing with your Google Account when you’re signed in to help protect you across Google apps.

How this information helps with security

Google uses this information to help:

Provide real-time security scanning to warn you about or block dangerous websites, downloads, and extensions.
Improve Google’s ability to detect and protect against phishing and malware for you and everyone on the web.
Give you better protection from dangerous links across Google apps.