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Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer."
From: Colin Alston <karnaugh () karnaugh za net>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:18:14 +0200
On 2009/01/31 04:50 PM Peter Beckman wrote:
This morning whilest Googling, I got a bunch of "Permission Denied" to "/interstitial?..." URLs on Google. Then all my search results got listed as "This site may harm your computer." Is Google broken, or is the functionality of listing sites as broken, broken?
You know, I recently started turning off safe-site checks to stopbadware.Never mind this incident, I've noticed *a lot* of sites getting blocked arbitrarily. Checking the site for reasons gives only the most tenuous reasoning, and on a number of occasions misspellings of the site I was actually visiting (as in, it was blocking the site I wanted based on a similarly or misspelt version being bad).
I do think Firefox for one misappropriates the accuracy of the system. Essentially it is allowing one site to dictate what their users can view.
Anyway, my 2c rant on web blacklists..
Current thread:
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer.", (continued)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." Marshall Eubanks (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." Brian Wallingford (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." John C. A. Bambenek (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." vijay gill (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." Marshall Eubanks (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." William Pitcock (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." casfre () gmail com (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." Marshall Eubanks (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." casfre () gmail com (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." Damian Menscher (Jan 31)
- RE: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." Frank Bulk (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." Colin Alston (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." Henry Linneweh (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." Chris Mills (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." andrew.wallace (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." Chris Mills (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." Bourbon . Odenthal (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." aljuhani (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." Marshall Eubanks (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." Marshall Eubanks (Jan 31)
- Re: All Google Search Results: "This site may harm your computer." aljuhani (Jan 31)