Blog: Availability of Safe Browsing

Preface Google Safe Browsing is a (controversial) mechanism used by web browsers to block known bad content in near real-time. However availability can be limited due to missing or bad API keys. Documented below is status as of August 2026. Testing Status of Safe Browsing can be checked in Chromium via chrome://safe-browsing and in Firefox via about:url-classifier . It can then be verified using…