Chrome to start warning users about malicious subscription scams

Google is taking up a new approach by warning people beforehand about a website that tricks users and subscribes them to billing scams.

In a recent blog post published by Google Chrome, the tech giant notified that it will show up a warning page to users when it suspects that they might be unknowingly subscribed to a direct billing scam, leading them to unexpected charges on their next bill.

Chrome will automatically detect if the subscription data on a webpage is insufficient and show up a warning page where users will be given option to either go back or proceed to the page.

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Chrome informed that sites will be required to make billing information, including telling users how much they will be charged, what they will be charged for, for how long, and ensuring those details are clear and visible to users, wrote Mashable.

Sites that did not meet Chrome’s new requirements will end up in the search engine showing the warning page and portraying the side as potentially malicious one before a user enters the site. Google will also notify the webmasters when the sites are not meeting the requirements so that they can fix their site and make charges information clear.

The blog post read, “We want to make sure Chrome users understand when they are going through a billing flow and trust that they’ll be able to make informed decisions while browsing the web.”

The warning page feature will be incorporated in Chrome 71 that is supposed to release in December. It will be available on both mobile and desktop versions of Chrome and on Android’s WebView too.