Google Chrome to protect users from suspicious HTTP links, suggests report

 

• According to a report by 9to5Google, Google is planning to introduce a security feature that will eventually block any insecure downloads that users want to open via HTTP websites.

Google, an American technology giant, is planning to introduce a new feature that will keep users safe from malicious and suspicious HTTP downloads. It is worth noting that when a user visits an HTTP website, Google Chrome classifies it as 'not secure' in the address bar on Android smartphones.

According to a report by 9to5Google, Google is planning to introduce a security feature that will eventually block any insecure downloads that users choose to open via HTTP websites. Significantly, for the past few years, the US browser was trying to make Chrome a secure platform by encouraging users to use only HTTPS websites.

To recall, Google Chrome also blocks secure websites from using unsecured web forms by default. It was recently observed that the technology giant had made a new toggle feature under Settings 'Always use secure connection'. Once this is enabled, the browser will attempt to upgrade to the HTTPS version of websites if a user accidentally navigates to an insecure version. Additionally, if there is no secure version, the browser will display an on-screen warning asking users whether or not they want to continue.

Meanwhile, the voice. The tech giant has added a warning feature that will alert users about incoming spam calls. This will help users avoid unwanted calls and not fall prey to potentially harmful scams. Google will use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify spam callers.

Google Voice is a service available to Google Account customers in the US and Google Workspace customers in Canada. Users get one phone number for calling, text messaging and voicemail. It works on smartphones as well as computers.

The new feature was announced by Google in a workspaces blog update. "To help protect you from unwanted calls and potentially harmful scams, Google Voice shows a 'suspected spam caller' label on all calls that Google determines to be spam. Google uses the same advanced artificial intelligence that determines that identifies billions of spam calls every month across Google's calling ecosystem," the company said.

Google says that the new spam call label will appear on the incoming call screen as well as in the call history. Here users will have two options. One is that they can confirm a suspected spam call, causing future calls from that number to go straight to voicemail and call history entries to be put into spam folders. The other option is to mark the labeled call as not spam, after which the suspected spam label for that number is never displayed again.