Wait, what is this new setting in Edge? Is Edge trying to save me from downloading potentially unwanted apps, such as toolbar/adware? Why, yes it is! What used to be a enterprise Windows Defender Antivirus feature is making its way to consumers. Now in beta.
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How is this different than Chrome Safe Browsing/DownloadRestrictions settings?
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Base SmartScreen and SafeBrowsing both block malware. The feature shown here goes further by optionally blocking downloads that contain potentially unwanted (but not technically malware) code-- think a utility app that also bundles in a crypto miner or notification spammer.
Safe Browsing added unwanted software warmings in 2015.
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That's different. As the Google doc writes: '... from sites where these nefarious downloads are available'. This is what SmartScreen does. What this new consumer edge feature does (that enterprises have had for a while) is against the **software** not the originating website
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