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Google updated its Safe Browsing feature. Now, Chrome users can receive real-time updates on dangerous websites. In the past, Safe Browsing updated its database of harmful sites every 30 to 60 minutes.

But since many harmful sites are only active for a short period, often less than 10 minutes, this was not effective enough. Now, Google’s servers will update the Safe Browsing list constantly, offering immediate protection against new threats. Google claims this method will reduce phishing site encounters by a margin.

Privacy has been a key focus in this update. Real-time Safe Browsing employs various privacy-preserving techniques to ensure Google does not learn the specifics of the sites users visit.

This feature has been released on Chrome’s desktop and iOS versions, with…

When it comes to the targeted advertisement and its refinement, Meta-owned Facebook has always been under scrutiny for its data tracking practices. Time and again the name has been smudged with the accusations of privacy infringement. Now, the company has come up with a feature called as “Link History” on its mobile app in which it shall enable the users to opt out from sharing their browsing records with the platform. It was through a blog post that this feature was revealed by Facebook.

Users Can Deactivate Link History to Opt Out of Targeted Ads

Since, the Link History is activated on user devices, Facebook is able to maintain a log of all the clicked links in order to serve the users with more personalized ads. Now, the users are also empowered to opt out of the same. 

That…