'protect you and your device from dangerous sites' setting
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 9:57 pm
I assume the 'protect you and your device from dangerous sites' setting in Slimjet privacy settings works the same way as the chrome 'Enable phishing and malware protection' setting.
From what I've read up to now, it works by sending the URL of the website you are attempting to access to google, where it is checked against a list of 'bad' websites. See: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=219#p1134
From what I've read up to now, it works by sending the URL of the website you are attempting to access to google, where it is checked against a list of 'bad' websites. See: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=219#p1134
So far so good, however, read your FAQ at: http://www.slimjet.com/en/faq.php and it says this:Google maintains a list of websites that may put you at risk for malware or phishing plus Google analyses website content and warns you if a site seems dangerous. The main problem with it, is your privacy with having it enabled because its one of those settings that send your browsing habits, data back to google and that to me is the best reason to disable it.
As to duplicate protection you will probably find that if your Av has protection for phishing (Some Av's don't) that its the same list that Google use.
To me its your Av solution that should stop these attacks, that its job. Not some settings in a browser which for the main part throws up more false positives and then in turn slows down the browser.
The answer above is not necessarily correct, because, in order to prevent data being sent to google servers we have to manually turn off the 'protect you and your device from dangerous sites' setting in Slimjet Privacy settings (it comes turned on by default).Q: Will Slimjet have the same privacy issues as Chrome, such as sending data to Google?
Slimjet doesn't send any data to Google's servers if you don't sync your bookmarks and other data with your google account.