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Google.com partially dangerous
- rzhikharevich 10y agoInterestingly, google.ru is "Not dangerous".
- rathish_g 10y agogoogle.co.in is also not dangerous
- fishnchips 10y agoObviously, Russian internet must be so much less corrupt ;)
- dexterdog 10y agoIt just a relative score within the TLD
- toyg 10y agobecause the danger googles YOU! (sorry, couldn't resist)
- OJFord 10y ago"Google considered harmful"
- basicplus2 10y agomay contain nuts? :)
- nerdponx 10y agoI was very tempted to click on those Google group links, but I didn't have the balls.
- maze-le 10y agoStangeley, 7b726aeb-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com is considered "Not dangerous". see: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagnostic/index.html?hl=en-US#url=7b726aeb-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagn...
- Kenji 10y agoAnd now I'm tempted to set up a VM and visit them, but I'm too lazy, it's probably a false positive anyway ;)
- maze-le 10y ago> 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...
- shawabawa3 10y agoWell 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
- RGamma 10y agoOn Google? If I enter "Chrome download" there, I get Google's own page as top result. However if you were to do the same with Bing (such as you probably would if you used Microsoft's browser downloader (Internet Explorer), which has Bing as default) you get the typical spam adverts at the top.
- xomateix 10y agoJust for the record, I quickly tried duckduckgo and bing (using !bang) and the first result I got from both the official chrome webpage.
- sp332 10y agoI get two ads (edit: on duckduckgo) before any search results, one for googlechromeonline.com and one for downloadsem.com, both are spammy.
- 01Michael10 10y agoYou have some type of malware or rogue extension on your device. I would look into that...
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- LaFolle 10y agoEven, github.com is partially dangerous. "Dangerous websites have been sending visitors to this website, including: github.com/mgp25, github.com/racaljk, and github.com/100pcrack"
- tamana 10y agoYes , github hosts UGC which has a lot of spam/malware.
- victorhooi 10y agoWhat is UGC, in this context?
- Zacru 10y agoUser Generated Content
- bluesilver07 10y ago>Some pages on google.com contain deceptive content right now. Talk about being honest about oneself..
- jobigoud 10y agoOh, a liar's paradox. Maybe it's this very page that is deceptive. In which case none of google.com is deceptive, but this page is.
- oolongCat 10y agoI 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.
- d_theorist 10y agoNobody 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.
- userbinator 10y agoThe 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.
- oolongCat 10y agoPrecisely!
- idiot99 10y agoYes, they are. In Chrome and firefox, if google decides your website isn't up to scratch for some random reason, then visitors will see a big scary red warning and be turned away. Yes, in theory you could get people to use a browser that doesn't incorporate Google censorship, but that's becoming a big ask. If your website does become blacklisted by Google, good luck finding out why. They won't tell you, and will instead make you click on a "request review" button a million times while you change things to see if it floats their boat. Isn't it slightly worrying to have the entity who decides if websites are "safe" or not, also have a monopoly on online advertising? What's to stop them blacklisting sites that use competitors advertising? They could claim that it benefits the users some how, whilst squashing any hint of competition. Google has become the absolute gatekeeper, and (To me at least) it's a very very sad state of affairs. The www used to be free and open.
- lrvick 10y agoRelated: The blog that announces their new security suite for Chrome, fails the security suite for Chrome. See screenshot https://twitter.com/lrvick/status/692282829619777537 https://twitter.com/lrvick/status/692282829619777537
- closed 10y agoThanks to this comment, I've been tinkering with the security suite, and thought it would be worth noting that it can also flag a site as insecure due to your extensions. That doesn't look like the case here, but it's nice it flags them.
- magicalist 10y agoThat's as related as being shocked that the https lock isn't green on all Google properties. It's just a mixed content warning.
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- warrenmca 10y agoalso microsoft.com, yahoo.com, cnet.com (no surprise there!)
- plank 10y agoGood* for Google to spot their own website being not completely safe! Wonder if they did click on https://www.google.com/webmasters/hacked/ https://www.google.com/webmasters/hacked/ themselves to see how to get Google.com unhacked.... ;-) * Actually, I think it IS good that there is no 'whitelist' of domains which are surely safe, and that it checks even the company's own main website.
- make3 10y agoafter all, Google once "sold" some guy the google.com domain by accident
- michaelmcmillan 10y agoIf I remember correctly, that guy was an employee. Still no excuse though.
- nxzero 10y agoFunny, 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.
- cojant 10y agoIf you type www.google.com it finds it not dangerous... Strange.
- melor 10y agoSure is dangerous sometimes for my work productivity...
- JimWestergren 10y agoAlso 4331 URLs removed from Google index [1] because of DMCA requests sent to Google: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/domains/google.com/ https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright... [1] http://domainstats.io/tools/dmca http://domainstats.io/tools/dmca
- JoblessWonder 10y agoIs that it? I find that searching for almost any movie includes a message at the bottom that at least one result has been removed due to a take down notice.
- JimWestergren 10y ago4331 URLs removed from the google.com domain. Sorry for not being clear.
- miket 10y agoWas recently reported that Google receives 100K DMCA requests per hour: http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/7/11172516/google-takedown-requests-75-million http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/7/11172516/google-takedown-re...
- JimWestergren 10y ago4331 URLs removed from the google.com domain. Sorry for not being clear.
- awendt 10y ago> Don't panic. > Users sometimes post bad content on websites > that are normally safe.
- peg_leg 10y agoMostly harmless
- putasidemobile 10y agoThis is almost surely not content hosted on Google.com, but content hosted on sites which Google redirects to. If Google serves a single malicious site as a linked result (or in a redirect) it will flag Google.com as hosting malicious content. This has been the case for years now, also for other Google properties, like Youtube and DoubleClick.
- OJFord 10y agoRight, but it's still odd that other Google TLDs (as reported in this thread) are not flagged.
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- thewhitetulip 10y agoGoogle 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.
- thewhitetulip 10y agogo ahead downvote, but that is the reality. You just don't know it.
- dgacmu 10y agoYou're getting downvoted because you're making an easily falsifiable claim. AWS hosts an absolutely staggering number of websites. Heck - DreamHost has 1.5 million sites. EIG, through a ton of subsidiary brands, hosts millions of sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_International_Group It may be surprising to those of us who hang out on HN, but Hotmail has over 360 million email customers. Yahoo (okay, okay) has over a quarter of a million. Yandex and QQ have dominant regional market share. Access? Comcast, Verizon, I'm looking at you, at least in the U.S. Backbone? Hi, AT&T, L3, NTT, <list of non-Google/Facebook companies>. Amusing that you have a Macbook pro. I think there might be a $579B company with a huge market share of the mobile market (safari, not Chrome) sitting there. Facts and actual data talk, not fear and rhetoric. The world has nuance that deserves credit.
- thewhitetulip 10y ago"at least in the U.S." and you justify downvoting my thread. When I said Google is the Internet, and you don't understand it, then I pity that you people have the ability to downvote comments on this site. Not everyone in the world means literally, when I say GOogle is the Internet that means Google is so powerful a company that 90+% of search market is with them, yes doubleclick I am looking at you, gmail, youtube, android, chromebook, google books, self driving car, a robotic cheetah that runs 200 something km per hour. That is scary. I am getting downvoted because the people who are downvoting don't understand what I am trying to say. yeah go ahead and downvote this and justify your actions. doesn't make the things I say less than the truth. Every computer I see has google chrome and google as the default search engine, God knows they did a research I read which tells the gender of the person by the way the keep their phone in their hand, can't cite it here because I am short on time. Google is scary. The kind of power they have, had it not been for the EU they would have been even more dangerous, thankfully and regretfully EU has authority only in the EU.
- cowholio4 10y agoI think the big problem is that Google does a poor job cleaning up user generated content on their own properties. Google Groups, Google Drive, Feedburner, GoogleSites and Blogspot are continuously used to deliver phishing/malware. It also doesn't help that google sometimes hosts those on it's google.com domain or uses their google.com domain to redirect to those sites.
- zeeshanm 10y agoDuckduckgo.com is not marked dangerous: https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagnostic/index.html?hl=en-US#url=duckduckgo.com https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagn...
- FlyingLawnmower 10y agoSame with bing.com and yahoo.com
- Animats 10y agoGoogle is at the top of SiteTruth's list of major sites currently being exploited by phishing scams. 37 of them right now.[1] This list comes from a join of PhishTank and Open Directory - sites with some reasonable reputation and an active report in PhishTank. At one time, Microsoft and Yahoo were at the top, but they got better. Any popular free hosting service ends up hosting phishing sites, but Google doesn't aggressively clean them out. Here's Google's oldest phishing site, from 2010.[2] It's an attempt to steal Habbo logins (Habbo is an old virtual world, similar to The Sims.) Lately, phishing via Google Drive is picking up. Phishing sites hosted on Google Spreadsheets have finally disappeared; you can put HTML in a spreadsheet cell and host a site that way. For a long time, Google didn't recognize that this was a way to host a fake site. At least all the fake sites are under Google's subdomains (sites., drive., etc.) There used to be exploits using "google.com" as an open redirector. [1] http://sitetruth.com/reports/phishes.html http://sitetruth.com/reports/phishes.html [2] https://sites.google.com/site/freehabbocoinsgbbo00/ https://sites.google.com/site/freehabbocoinsgbbo00/
- billhendricksjr 10y ago> Some pages on google.com contain deceptive content right now. So can I believe this page or not?
- JBiserkov 10y agoTo some extent...
- hunvreus 10y agoGoogle.com also fare poorly on its own performance test: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=google.com https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...