If youve used Chrome for any length of time, youve probably stumbled across its scary red interstitialotherwise known as the Google Safe Browsing warning.
If youre attempting to pull up a site that looks problematic,like a malware host, Chrome will prevent you from doing so unless you do a little digging tobypass its warning.
While that cant-miss-it red blocker should be all the help you gotta keep yourself from visiting websites you dont want to be on, Googlealsooffers a few extra tools you’ve got the option to use to check a sites Safe Browsing status, including a brand-newSuspicious Site ReporterChrome extension.
Install it, and a little icon in your web app will tell you if the website youre currently visitingseemssuspicious.
If you agreesomething feels off about its presentation, or it tries to push some scammy download during your browsing experienceyou can also use the extension to flag the site for Google.
With enough reports (Im assuming), Google will take a closer look at the site and consider giving it the big red warning, if its truly problematic.
In other words, youll be helping your fellow web citizens stay safer during their browsing by reporting potentially unsafe sites you visit.
kindly dont be a jerk and report sites you simply disagree with, because thats annoying and Google is probably not going to consider someones Facebook page (or whatever) to be an unsafe website.
Good try.
Beyond that, Google also offersa little web-based toolyou can use to check the Safe Browsing status of any website you want.
While most people will probably just wait for their net surf tool to say DONT VISIT THAT SITEor this new extension to suggest when thingsappearstrangeit doesnt hurt to keep this tool in your back pocket if youd like another way to verify whether Google has security-checked a site or not.
