Submitted via IRC for SoyCow8317
Microsoft has released a Chrome extension named "Windows Defender Browser Protection" that ports Windows Defender's —and inherently Edge's— anti-phishing technology to Google Chrome.
[...] Chrome users should be genuinely happy that they can now use both APIs for detecting phishing and malware-hosting URLs. The SmartScreen API isn't as known as Google's more famous Safe Browsing API, but works in the same way, and possibly even better.
An NSS Labs benchmark revealed that Edge (with its SmartScreen API) caught 99 percent of all phishing URLs thrown at it during a test last year, while Chrome only detected 87 percent of the malicious links users accessed.
(Score: 3, Funny) by MostCynical on Monday April 23 2018, @09:37PM
It is making you safet! All your browsing can now be certified and verified and all the sites you visit can now be checked for compliance.
All those words must make you feel safer (also: these days, privacy is for those who don't use the internet)
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex