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> 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
by maze-le 11y 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 11y 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 11y 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 11y 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 11y agoI get two ads (edit: on duckduckgo) before any search results, one for googlechromeonline.com and one for downloadsem.com, both are spammy.
- 01Michael10 11y agoYou have some type of malware or rogue extension on your device. I would look into that...
- sp332 11y agoThat only affects DDG and not Google or Bing? That doesn't seem likely. You sure you're not running an adblocker? (Also it's rogue, not rouge.)
- 01Michael10 11y agoThere some type of law that requires malware/extensions that inserts fake results in one's searches to work with all search engines? LOL Common sense would dictate that Google would NOT be selling AdWords that would replace THEIR own ad for the top search result for their own products. EDIT: Wait, you are talking about Duck Duck Go? This thread is about Google.com NOT DDG. Regardless, I get Google's official site at the top with DDG.
- sp332 11y agoThe one I replied to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11526264 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11526264 is about Bing and DDG.
- 01Michael10 11y agoMy bad... You still have some issue.
- nitrogen 11y agoAd for everydownload shows up at the top of ddg for me on Chrome Android. Are you this incredulous, or just trolling?
- 01Michael10 11y agoNo, are you trolling? I was hardly the only one on this post who didn't get ads for that search. You are the first person to mention the mobile version of any browser so I did the same search with Chrome on Android using DDG and... Gee, the Google Chrome website is still the first result. The only time I got an ad was with the Canadian version of Bing. Note, I am using the DDG website NOT the app or extension.
- alanh 11y agoI just repeated your experiment: With my ad blocker disabled, I searched for "google chrome" on DDG. I got two ads above the search results; one was for google.com, and the second was for downloadsem.com, which is distributing a Chrome browser that comes with a lot of browser toolbars. I took screen shots. [1] Of note is that these ads are powered by, and clicks redirect through, Yahoo. [1]: Screen shots for the curious: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jiooo37trog860d/AAAgmpY9SMxcLyIVIWwKzA-ya?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jiooo37trog860d/AAAgmpY9SMxcLyIVI...
- basch 11y agoI tried a bunch of searches, it seemed like both sites had their chrome links cleaned up. (or google bought all the bing adspace) Bings pretopresult ad for firefox is still malware. Microsoft should be liable for this - http://imgur.com/b2VuRMP.jpg http://imgur.com/b2VuRMP.jpg
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- ocdtrekkie 11y agoIt should. Though if search engines were actually held liable for every malware link they place above real results, Google would no longer be a profitable business. Just the fake banks Google puts in search ads alone...
- basch 11y agomicrosoft 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?
- puddintane 11y agoMost 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's per day there simply isn't an easy way to do all that testing for each single new ad being served, on top of discovering new methods used to skip the checks. Some networks are truly terrible and just have automation systems but those networks aren't as profitable and are beginning to die out. With deep learning networks becoming so popular I do often ponder if this type of prevention could be automated slightly better!
- woogley 11y agoLike the other peer comments, this does not show up for me. I'm afraid there's a good chance you already have some malware (or at least a rogue extension) that is inserting ads into your pages.
- emodendroket 11y agoHow would you know? The results are different for everyone, aren't they?
- woogley 11y agoThere's some conjecture involved but I would be very surprised if Google actually sold AdWords for their own browser.
- anon1385 11y agoThey certainly have done in the past: http://i.imgur.com/yVIMYKO.png http://i.imgur.com/yVIMYKO.png Taken from a comment I wrote a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7335401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7335401
- ceejayoz 11y agoDeliberately? No, of course not. They can't just ban the word "Chrome" from AdWords, though. Spammers/malware authors are very good at figuring out what's needed to slip through the automated systems.
- joncampbelldev 11y agoSame 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.
- shawabawa3 11y agoIt 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
- sbierwagen 11y agoYes, but did you have a retail copy of win 10, or a pirated version?
- shawabawa3 11y agoLegit copy, installed from an ISO downloaded from microsoft's site
- user8341116 11y agoWindows 10 is malware though.
- zanny 11y agopacaur -Sy google-chrome Didn't get any malware links like that. Windows software installation model is horrifying.
- whyever 11y agoAnyone can upload malicious code on AUR. It just hasn't been targeted yet.
- zanny 11y agoThe difference is any AUR helper worth using tells you to review the pkgbuild. In this case, I can easily see that the deb the script uses is pulled from dl.google.com and that all it does is decompress it and rebuild it as a tar.xz package. Additionally, the AUR is about as curated as Google Play, and I trust Google Play exceedingly more than random download links on the Internet. You can audit AUR packages via its rating, the number of comments it has, its popularity, and the website enables you to flag packages as malicious, the same way you would flag APKs on Google's service.
- Chlorus 11y agoNot as horrifying as someone installing a build script without reviewing it first...
- zanny 11y agoPacaur explicitly asks you to review it, and you can easily check to verify the origin is https://dl.google.com https://dl.google.com for the deb the installer uses.
- dbbolton 11y agoI'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.
- sbierwagen 11y agoTop 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.
- stvswn 11y agoCan you try again and post a screenshot of your results?