Google Chrome can now make its own decisions on your safety

The browser's newest version can act by itself to snip out unwanted permissions

Tom Allen
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Google Chrome can now make its own decisions on your safety

Google has enhanced Chrome's Safety Check feature, allowing it to act on its own in some circumstances.

The sort-of-autonomous Safety Check will run in the background in the newest version of Chrome. While it will alert you to tell you what it's done, it will take action on its own. According to Goog...

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