Google has taken steps today to ensure Chrome users accessing the web on Android are better protected by-turning on Safe Browsing by default. The search giant says Safe Browsing is already enabled on over a billion machines running Chrome on the desktop, which protects users from certain types of malware, phishing attacks, and other cybersecurity threats. Prior to today, those warning pages popped up for mobile users only if they turned on Chrome's-lesser-known data compression feature in the settings panel.



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