Google says the Safe Browsing apparatus now protects over 3 billion devices

Google currently announced that a Safe Browsing service, that keeps Chrome, Safari and Firefox users on a desktop and on mobile from visiting potentially dangerous sites, now protects some-more than 3 billion devices. That’s adult from 1 billion in 2013 and 2 billion a association starting citing in May 2016.

The service, one of Google’s initial attempts during an anti-malware tool, initial launched as a underline of a company’s flagship hunt engine on a desktop behind in 2007. Since then, both Safari and Firefox have adopted a service, in further to many web and app developers (including a likes of Snapchat).

The ubiquitous thought behind Safe Browsing has always remained a same, though: tell users when a site they are browsing is expected false or plays horde to malware.

It’s value observant that it was usually behind in 2015 that Google incited on Safe Browsing for Chrome for Android by default, that of march done a service’s use numbers fire adult by early 2016.

Google also records that today’s Safe Browsing facilities use appurtenance training to detect “more badness” and that it is “continually evaluating and integrating cutting-edge new approaches to improve Safe Browsing.”