Safe Browsing also notifies webmasters when their websites are compromised by malicious actors and helps them diagnose and resolve the problem.

This protection works across Google products and is claimed to “power safer browsing experiences across the Internet”.

The Safe Browsing Update API, on the other hand, compares 32-bit hash prefixes of the URL to preserve privacy.

Logs, which include an IP address and one or more cookies, are kept for two weeks and are tied to the other Safe Browsing requests made from the same device.

Websites not containing malware have been blacklisted by Google Safe Browsing due to the presence of infected ads.