The British company Which?, which is engaged in research in the field of informed choice of goods and services by consumers, has officially stated that the Google Chrome browser does not recognize the vast majority of phishing sites on the Internet. According to Which?’s own research, when visiting 800 phishing sites (which were discovered by company employees relatively recently), Chrome detects and blocks only 28% of them on the Windows platform and 25% on the macOS operating system. Naturally, these figures are significantly different from what users expect from Google’s browser.
Moreover, the closest competitor, according to the study, is doing much better in this direction – Mozilla’s Firefox browser was able to identify and block 85% of phishing sites on Windows and 78% on macOS. At the same time, Google employees expressed their disagreement with the results of this study, calling into question the reliability and methodology of testing. The fact is that Google has been developing and improving its anti-phishing technology for more than a decade, which is also distributed free of charge to authors of other browsers. And Firefox, according to representatives of the search giant, primarily relies on Google’s Safe Browsing API technology to protect against phishing sites.
Accordingly, Google believes that if Firefox showed such a higher percentage of blocking phishing sites, while working on the API from Google itself, and Chrome is so far behind the competitor, then the results of the study should be treated with skepticism. About what additional means of protection against phishing uses the author of Firefox, the search giant does not report. It is quite possible that Mozilla experts really use the Google Safe Browsing API, but not only this technology, but also their own developments in this direction.
Source: Trash Box
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