Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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In this video I go over several settings that I think you should change to make your browser more secure. They should all apply to any Chromium-based browsers, which most of us use. I talk about both regular settings you can access through the settings menu, as well as more hidden "flag" settings which can be accessed through about://flags . For those, I talk about ones that you probably should change, as well as some that you might want to consider, but might not necessarily want to change for one reason or another, which I discuss for each.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Safe Browsing Mode
2:00 - Encrypted DNS
2:48 - Always Use Secure Connections
3:33 - Disable V8 Optimizer
5:16 - An Excellent Thing Indeed
6:47 - Chrome Flags
7:11 - Extensions Menu Access Control
8:35 - Signature-based Integrity Checks
9:18 - Client Side Scam Detection
10:03 - Local Network Access Checks
11:44 - Enable noise for Canvas Readbacks in Incognito
12:26 - Bind Cookies To Their Setting Origin's Scheme
13:14 - Advanced Flags To Maybe Consider
13:25 - Bind Cookies To Their Setting Origin's Port
14:29 - PartitionAlloc with Advanced Checks
15:33 - Automatic Detection of WebUSB-Compatible Devices
16:18 - Enable Isolated Web Apps to bypass USB Restrictions
16:45 - Disable Subframe Process Reuse
17:19 - Enable Fingerprinting Protection Blocklist In Regular Browsing
18:06 - Reduce Accept-Language Request Header
18:26 - Deprecate the Unload Event
18:54 - If You Can’t Find One
Sponsored: Stay safe from scams with Bitdefender Premium Security and Scam Copilot: bitdefend.me/PremiumSecurity-ThioJoe
In this video I go over several settings that I think you should change to make your browser more secure. They should all apply to any Chromium-based browsers, which most of us use. I talk about both regular settings you can access through the settings menu, as well as more hidden "flag" settings which can be accessed through about://flags . For those, I talk about ones that you probably should change, as well as some that you might want to consider, but might not necessarily want to change for one reason or another, which I discuss for each.
Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Safe Browsing Mode
2:00 - Encrypted DNS
2:48 - Always Use Secure Connections
3:33 - Disable V8 Optimizer
5:16 - An Excellent Thing Indeed
6:47 - Chrome Flags
7:11 - Extensions Menu Access Control
8:35 - Signature-based Integrity Checks
9:18 - Client Side Scam Detection
10:03 - Local Network Access Checks
11:44 - Enable noise for Canvas Readbacks in Incognito
12:26 - Bind Cookies To Their Setting Origin's Scheme
13:14 - Advanced Flags To Maybe Consider
13:25 - Bind Cookies To Their Setting Origin's Port
14:29 - PartitionAlloc with Advanced Checks
15:33 - Automatic Detection of WebUSB-Compatible Devices
16:18 - Enable Isolated Web Apps to bypass USB Restrictions
16:45 - Disable Subframe Process Reuse
17:19 - Enable Fingerprinting Protection Blocklist In Regular Browsing
18:06 - Reduce Accept-Language Request Header
18:26 - Deprecate the Unload Event
18:54 - If You Can’t Find One
