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Tangentially, I would like Google to put a warning on navigating to a site that has served malware any time in the past month. This will increase the penalty o
by willvarfar 11y ago
Tangentially, I would like Google to put a warning on navigating to a site that has served malware any time in the past month. This will increase the penalty of serving malware so much that sites will suddenly push back on the ad networks and improve quality dramatically.
- wslh 11y agoThe problem with Google is that they are labeling as malware a lot of software that is not malware just because they have an .exe. Source: it is happening at my company. It seems like just signing the software is enough to remove this labelling but their policies are not transparent. At the end Google is behaving like a vigilante.
- tunap 11y agoWhen the IP for a shared hosting server is flagged, the result in search for all sites residing under that IP are saddled with an alt URL titled "This site may be hacked". Their solution to fix it for the dozens/hundreds of benign sites co-hosted on said server? Sign up for more Google services(Google Search Console). In that way, they are behving like a typical corporation.
- evilDagmar 11y agoSadly for your argument, what Google does there is the correct solution, because it is true.
- tunap 10y agoI disagree. Subscription plays no part in the solution, regardless of what the problem entails. Google could post the reason they mettled in the results page in the first place and require subscription for their expertise in correcting said issue.
- wslh 11y agoI don't use a shared hosting server.
- scarlac 11y agoAre they not doing that already (via their fraud blacklist)? thepiratebay.se was just recently blocked (yesterday?) for serving malware via an ad. Safari and Chrome use this list AFAIK. I have first-hand experience with such a situation and you quickly loose faith in the ad network you're using. A month of blocking would be devastating to the site, considering it's not even their fault. Repeat offenders could be handled differently though.
- pbhjpbhj 11y agoWhich media company arranged that I wonder ...
- tzs 11y agoIn the United States Google runs one of the biggest ad networks, which has occasionally served malware, and they run the biggest search engine. Penalizing in the later sites that use a competitor to the former might open them to an antitrust lawsuit. They could probably do this in a way that avoids antitrust liability, but I think they would have to tread very carefully.
- dhimes 11y agoThere needs to be some oversight. Can you imagine being mis-categorized by Google? No recourse. And they are not that good at machine inference yet, at least in this part of the company, in my experience.
- ksk 11y agoThey would have to block their own website then !