Google Chrome will use AI to block tech support scam websites

Google will use an on‑device Gemini Nano LLM in Chrome 137 to detect and block tech support scam webpages—sites that typically go fullscreen, show fake scans and phone numbers, and abuse the Keyboard Lock API to prevent users from escaping—by extracting security signals locally and forwarding them to Safe Browsing for a final verdict; Malwarebytes data notes that 30% of recently blocked fraudulent sites were tech support scams.