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Ah yes sourceforge. How far the mighty have fallen.
Sourceforge was doing this on like day 3, so i'm not sure they fell that far?
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For you. It looks more like the OP's version to me, including 'softonic' as the third linked one. The top two are mozilla's (and I use an ad blocker so I don't see the ad). On Chrome the first 6 links are mozilla's then the 'download sites' start.
I don't use an adblocker and I get the same results as you (top two are Mozilla, followed by softonic), no ads present.
The ads are not gone.
Well maybe they should stop allowing download sites that offer ad infected downloads to buy the top spots on the google search results page? https://i.imgur.com/Ote9c2k.png Adwords is probably one of the main infection vectors for malware these days. Previous rant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879229
Your rant is outdated. This is what "download firefox" looks like now: http://i.imgur.com/dG7wONC.png
As I wrote in another comment, even YCombinator invested in a bundleware company and PG defended it, so I guess the problem is deep rooted.
Do these injectors work with https (ssl) sites? Where in the web page fetch/render process does this occur?
That HTTPS supposedly keeps out ads like this was one of Google's selling points for suggesting HTTPS to publishers. I was expecting this article to end with "and that is why all sites should be running HTTPS now". 5% is a lot. If HTTPS reduces this number to 1%, it might be worth the change.
Best way to avoid scams is common sense (if something looks dodgy, it probably is).
Well maybe they should stop allowing download sites that offer ad infected downloads to buy the top spots on the google search results page? https://i.imgur.com/Ote9c2k.png Adwords is probably one of the main infection vectors for malware these days. Previous rant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879229
Of course there is no way to tell Google that these aren't real sites (I tried) and distinguishing real text from Markov chains using a computer is hard.
I keep wondering what it will take for them to figure out bad content, both for the computer (javascript etc) and for people (english etc).
You can't trust anybody except for open source repositories. The easiest way to get such trash on your computer is installing software from a commercial vendor. Oracle is one major source of headache, if you aren't careful you'll find your 'java' install also gives you a severe case of malware/crapware. There are whole companies dedicated to this concept of piggy-backing junk.
Example on Gentoo(ignore the over the top headline):
http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-infection-proves-windows-...
Not to mention that the repos themselves have been having security issues over the years.
https://gist.github.com/fsaintjacques/e53eadd8b260a4105bbf
If you want to test the effect of it, copy/paste 'console.js' content in Chrome's console, I recommend to go into incognito mode:
https://gist.github.com/fsaintjacques/e53eadd8b260a4105bbf#f...
Well maybe they should stop allowing download sites that offer ad infected downloads to buy the top spots on the google search results page? https://i.imgur.com/Ote9c2k.png Adwords is probably one of the main infection vectors for malware these days. Previous rant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8879229
This, right here, is why I have no qualms installing Adblock Edge and insisting that my parents (and anyone else who isn't very tech-savvy) do the same. It's not about not wanting to support independent bloggers. It's about making sure that unsuspecting users don't accidentally download malware when they're doing something mundane like downloading their web browser . In the age of the web, Adblock is the new anti-vir…
On the other hand, it takes a long time, but they do learn to be more cynical about the Internet if they're exposed to its raw state.
