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Re: Google.com partially dangerous

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Post by partiallypro »

d_theorist wrote: post #16
oolongCat wrote: post #11

I really really dislike this. Why does google get to decide which websites are good and which are not. Unless someone subscribes to this service google should do what it does best, search. One day they decide everyone should be mobile friendly, the next day they decide which sites are bad and which are not, what more? Every single day, google is giving me more reason to use alternative search engines.

Nobody is being forced to any attention to their pronouncements. The only reason they are of any relevance is that a lot of people freely choose to use services and software that incorporate them.

> Nobody is being forced to any attention to their pronouncements

Not necessarily true, your website being flagged by Google can get you blocked on multiple browsers. That's enough to destroy your traffic. Granted, I'd say 99% of these are legit flags from JS injections, etc.

Sure, you could use a browser that doesn't do this...but, you won't.

Re: Google.com partially dangerous

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Post by thewhitetulip »

Google is at a very influential position these days, everything is Google, and Facebook is trying it's damnest to become like Google.

Google, for the most parts, is the Internet, chrome, gmail, search engine, android, good lord even walking robots! We are lucky that they g+ failed miserably :D

Otherwise we'd not have Internet, we'd have Google, nothing in the world beyond it. Nobody to check it's power, except maybe the EU, but that's their jurisdiction.

I recently bought a macbook pro, whenever I visit google.com using macbook I get a small popup -> visit your privacy setting, no other platform did I ever get that popup. They apparently discriminate it. For work we use US network, and there I regularly see that popup, never on an Indian IP that I got that message. Apparently they think Indian's do not care much about their privacy. Too much for Don't be evil.

Re: Google.com partially dangerous

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Post by nxzero »

tamana wrote: post #70
nxzero wrote: post #28

Funny, everyone knows Google is dangerous. In all seriousness though, they've got one of the largest public facing systems in the world. Given the surface area and traffic volumes, it's surprising that the don't have more issues than they do.

Public facing systems isn't the issue, user generated content is.

If the user generated content was private and hard to share or view in bulk, it be less of an issue.

Re: Google.com partially dangerous

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Post by oolongCat »

userbinator wrote: post #22
d_theorist wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody is being forced to any attention to their pronouncements. The only reason they are of any relevance is that a lot of people freely choose to use services and software that incorporate them.

The concern is primarily because Google has, to many people, become "the Internet itself" --- it is in a position of immense power to control what the majority of the Internet-using population sees. This isn't quite the same situation as some random white/blacklisting site's opinion.

Precisely!

Re: Google.com partially dangerous

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Post by dbbolton »

shawabawa3 wrote: post #19
maze-le wrote: post #7

> Attackers on this site might try to trick you to download software or steal your information Thats an awful description of googles business model, but partly true...

Well I tried to download chrome yesterday, and you STILL get www.downloadchromenow.com and other spam site adverts at the top of the results, which absolutely serve malware/spyware Until they sort out their ads it's true, it is a dangerous site

I've had similar experiences with Bing, which I used inside IE on a fresh Windows install to search for a few programs/drivers (was just to lazy to type in my own search engine).

IIRC when I searched for FF or Chrome, the top 4-5 results were links to third party sites, but when searching for nvidia drivers the official site was the first non-ad result. Definitely seemed suspicious, and also made me realize how much I missed apt.

Re: Google.com partially dangerous

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Post by whyever »

zanny wrote: post #62
shawabawa3 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well I tried to download chrome yesterday, and you STILL get www.downloadchromenow.com and other spam site adverts at the top of the results, which absolutely serve malware/spyware Until they sort out their ads it's true, it is a dangerous site

pacaur -Sy google-chrome Didn't get any malware links like that. Windows software installation model is horrifying.

Anyone can upload malicious code on AUR. It just hasn't been targeted yet.

Re: Google.com partially dangerous

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Post by sbierwagen »

shawabawa3 wrote: post #51
joncampbelldev wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same as peer comments, this does not occur for me on any of my google accounts nor on an anonymous search. I think you may have adware.

It was on a fresh windows 10 install, so unlikely. Of course, now it isn't happening any more. Either they fixed it, it's intermittent, or I'm misremembering

Yes, but did you have a retail copy of win 10, or a pirated version?

Re: Google.com partially dangerous

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Post by sbierwagen »

shawabawa3 wrote: post #19
maze-le wrote: post #7

> Attackers on this site might try to trick you to download software or steal your information Thats an awful description of googles business model, but partly true...

Well I tried to download chrome yesterday, and you STILL get www.downloadchromenow.com and other spam site adverts at the top of the results, which absolutely serve malware/spyware Until they sort out their ads it's true, it is a dangerous site

Top four results for "chrome" on google.com for me all point to various google.com links.

Top three results on bing.com also point to google.com.

Re: Google.com partially dangerous

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Post by shawabawa3 »

sbierwagen wrote: post #77
shawabawa3 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was on a fresh windows 10 install, so unlikely. Of course, now it isn't happening any more. Either they fixed it, it's intermittent, or I'm misremembering

Yes, but did you have a retail copy of win 10, or a pirated version?

Legit copy, installed from an ISO downloaded from microsoft's site

Re: Google.com partially dangerous

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Post by basch »

puddintane wrote: post #64
basch wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

microsoft writes the operating system they are infecting. then people with older computers think their hardware is too slow and buy a new one. how can they not use vm's and heuristics to click all their ads and see if it infects their own operating system, before approving the ads, and then rechecking them every so many clicks?

Most of the time it's a brief look with a VM that the ad approval process goes thru, and honestly that may not show the malware. A lot of the time the malware is designed to only show up in certain case scenarios such as date/time, specific version of an OS like Windows XP SP1 but not SP2. Designers come up with the most ludicrous ways of circumventing the Ad approval process, and with hundreds to thousands of new ad…

safety rating of ads should exipry like edge cache
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