How to Secure Your Google Chrome Data from 'High Risk' Vulnerabilities

It is not rare to encounter security risks while browsing Google Chrome. It has even come to the point that a new zero-day exploit is being discovered every week.

While Google often resolves these issues immediately, there is no harm in employing other methods to secure personal data accessible on the Chrome browser.

Limit Accessible Personal Data

One sure-proof way to keep Google from collecting unnecessary amounts of data is to limit the user information the platform can access.

While it may seem impossible without abandoning Chrome altogether, users can achieve somewhat similar results through VPNs and onion browsers.

In this way, people can redirect all-important user information to secure data sites rather than being accessed by Google's automated processes.

Disable Ad Trackers

If Google collecting user data is not a problem, people can still employ additional security measures to their Chrome browsers by disabling built-in ad trackers.

This can help limit who accesses your user data and helps keep away from annoying ads suddenly popping up in your recommendations.

The ad tracking features, including Ad Topics, Suggested Ads, and Ad Measurement, can be disabled via the "Ads Privacy" section in the "Privacy and Security" menu on the settings.

Switch to DNS Over HTTPS

Switching your network system from the default HTTPS protocol to Domain Name System resolution may be able to provide better protection against "man-in-the-middle" cyberattacks.

This would also allow users to have better control over the websites collecting information from them, although enabling the protocol at long periods might also put the users at risk of being monitored.

This is because third-party actors can access people's internet activities on a DNS server than when it is equipped with HTTPS or TLS protocols.