Google's move comes amidst Microsoft's campaign to encourage enterprises to switch from Chrome to Edge due to its safe browsing capabilities. The AI-powered safe browsing is currently in the canary development release but is expected to hit the stable release soon. Despite the enhanced security, Chrome continues to face privacy issues related to tracking and cookie deprecation. However, these issues do not seem to affect Chrome's user statistics significantly.
Key takeaways:
- Google Chrome is enhancing its security with the use of AI to better protect users against dangerous sites and downloads.
- The 'enhanced protection' mode in Chrome’s Safe browsing feature will be powered by AI, but this involves transmitting and potentially collating users' browsing activity, raising privacy concerns.
- Google's move comes amidst a campaign by Microsoft to encourage users to switch from Chrome to Edge due to its safe browsing capabilities.
- Despite ongoing privacy concerns and issues around tracking and cookie deprecation, Chrome's user stats remain unaffected, suggesting that their approach is working.