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It's an accurate label. Those ads they show seem to carry whatever payload they please. Google is right to warn people away from there.
by coderdude 14y ago
It's an accurate label. Those ads they show seem to carry whatever payload they please. Google is right to warn people away from there.
- jiggy2011 14y agoNot to mention whatever crap is in the torrents themselves.
- Karunamon 14y agoThe torrents have actually been quite high quality, especially if you stick by those uploaded by trusted community members. I'll agree they need to put a tighter leash on their advertisers, though.
- mistercow 14y agoThat argument seems pretty iffy to me. If people post links to pages that contain malware in HN comments, should HN be tagged as a malware distributor?
- jiggy2011 14y agoIf HN has no policy against it and allows it to continue , then I suppose yes.
- shitlord 14y agobut TPB takes down fakes torrents/malware all the time
- jiggy2011 14y agoOn a practical level am I more likely to get malware by clicking links from HN or downloading random torrents off TPB?
- maratd 14y agoOn a practical level, both HN and TPB track users and have karma systems. If you click on links from established users, you are unlikely to experience malware on both sites.
- jiggy2011 14y agoThat's not really the point, you have to be more careful on one site than the other. Plus TBP links to far more executable binaries than HN.
- mtgx 14y agoOn a practical level you're also less likely to catch a computer virus if you stay off the Internet. Does that mean you should stop using the Internet?
- ori_b 14y agoIf the malware is in ads that get loaded when the HN page gets loaded, then HN should be flagged as distributing malware. The reasoning is purely technical. Will loading this page involve loading malware?
- mayneack 14y agoThe comment appears to be countering the argument that the torrents containing malware should earn this warning.
- ddrt 14y agoAds?