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ADVANCING PROTECTION IN CHROME ON ANDROID
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Google's Android Advanced Protection now integrates with Chrome to enhance security for high-risk users, such as journalists and officials. It provides three key features: enforcing HTTPS everywhere, full site isolation on devices with 4GB+ RAM to prevent data leaks, and disabling JavaScript optimizations that are often exploited in V8 security bugs. These options, which have performance trade-offs, can be enabled by enterprises and users through Chrome's privacy settings and policies outside of Advanced Protection.