To protect our security and privacy, Google Chrome It has continued to release improvements and features over the past few years, such as the “Security Check”, a feature that lets us know if the browser is up to date or if any of our passwords have been compromise. Well, another important feature is coming to the web browser soon.
Leaked last November, Google officially announced the new chrome privacy guidereaching all desktop users over the next few weeks through version 100 to later reach its mobile version, a feature that we have already been able to test in Chromium for Android
An overview of Chrome’s privacy guide for Android
The privacy guide offer us a visit walkthrough through chrome privacy settingswith which Google will guide us through different windows for the most important privacy options.
This future section is in the configuration of Privacy and Security from Chromiumand through its different stages it will offer us the controls for improve searches and navigationthe history synchronization, secure navigation and block third-party cookies. This way, the user will not have to search for each option in the different sections of the configuration.
Each window will have explanation with what the user gets when activating each of the privacy controls, as well as information that will be shared with Google with certain features. For the ‘Secure browsing’Google Chrome gives us standard protection and enhanced protection, explaining in detail the differences between each option.
It also allows us to choose when to block third-party cookiesif you are in incognito mode or always block so that websites can only see your browsing activity on their own website and not on other pages you visit.
Soon available on Android
Google has confirmed that the Privacy Guide will be coming to the desktop version of Chrome 100 in the next few weeks, but the Android version shouldn’t be long in coming, as this feature is already hidden away as an experimental feature. not yet functional.
From the Chrome Flags we can enable the Chrome Privacy Guide. For that, we only have to go Chrome://flags from the address bar and activate the experimental function #privacy-guide. After activating it (Enabled), we must restart the browser by clicking on ‘Relaunch’. Once done, we will find the new section in Settings > Privacy & Security > Privacy Guide.
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