Chrome will now show a warning before you visit ‘suspicious’ sites

<figure> <img alt="Google Chrome’s new warning message for suspicious websites." data-caption="If you know for sure that a website flagged as suspicious is actually safe, you can mark it as such. | Image: Google" data-portal-copyright="Image: Google" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/Google-Chrome-suspicious-website-warning-hero.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> If you know for sure that a website flagged as suspicious is actually safe, you can mark it as such. | Image: Google </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Google <a href="https://blog.google/security/our-latest-defenses-against-evolving-web-scams/">is launching</a> a new browser safety feature for Chrome that aims to keep you better informed about how malicious a website might be before you open it. The new suspicious site warnings, available when Chrome's Enhanced Protection is on, build on a similar two-stage system introduced for <a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2024/07/building-security-into-redesigned.html">Chrome file downloads in 2024</a>, which provides visually different notifications for blocked files based on whether they're determined to be "suspicious" or "dangerous."</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">For the Chrome site warnings, the feature will flag a website as suspicious if it detects that it has similar qualities to other sites associated with phishing, malware, and scams. Google …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1014446/google-chrome-suspicious-website-warning">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>