Notices by EricLaw (ericlaw@mastodon.social)

@GossiTheDog When you say "latest version" are you using Stable 130 or Canary 132?

@GossiTheDog Are you logged in? Is the toggle on?

@GossiTheDog @wdormann Files that are known to be malicious, or not known to be safe show security prompts based on the fact that they're a dangerous type. Files that are known to be safe do not show security prompts.

This is why, for example, you don't get security prompts when installing e.g. Chrome when SmartScreen is enabled, but do get warnings when SmartScreen is disabled.

See
https://textslashplain.com/2023/08/23/smartscreen-application-reputation-in-pictures/#:~:text=Scenario%3A%20%E2%80%9CGood%E2%80%9D%20File

@wdormann The design intent of SmartScreen AppRep is to suppress security warnings when nothing dangerous is happening.

Launching calc is not dangerous.

@molly0xfff Which spyware kept all of its data locally and never sent it to anybody?

Tip: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint's Web Content Filtering has an option to block traffic to newly-registered domains.

Vaporize a category of spear-phishers in their tracks.

tl;dr: "Chrome plans to disable third-party cookies for 1% of users from Q1 2024 to facilitate testing, and then ramp up to 100% of users from Q3 2024"
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/cookie-countdown-2023oct/