Google’s Safe Browsing service acts to automatically protect more than 3 billion devices worldwide, according to new published figures. For Safe Browsing, it's two billion more devices compared to a score last year.
When browsing, Safe Browsing warns users of an attempt to access sites deemed dangerous or to download malicious files. Developers are also alerted when their sites are compromised.
Thanks to a free and public availability (API) for publishers and developers, this protection does not only concern Google products, which explains the astronomical figure of 3 billion.
In addition, a Safe Browsing client is part of Google Play Services, including a default activation for Chrome on Android. Since iOS 10, Safari also uses Safe Browsing.
" We send only the most protective information to a given device, and we make sure that this data is compressed as much as possible. ", writes Google.
Safe Browsing uses machine learning to detect different types of threats. Developments are planned, but that's the mystery about it at the moment.
