Chrome Blocks Major Torrent Sites Over "Harmful Programs"

103 点作者 snowy将近 10 年前

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neotek将近 10 年前

Pretty sure it'll be because of the semi-shady ad networks that service torrent sites and various other filehosts. The networks themselves aren't shady, per se, but they don't have the resources of Google to adequately police all of the ads that run through their networks. As a result, they end up serving malicious ads that link to dodgy installers or even straight up 0-day browser exploits.

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joesmo将近 10 年前

At this point, the only think keeping me on Chrome/Chromium is their dev tools. After the 'Ok Google' binary blob and now this shit, I've just about had it. At the very least, there should be an option to unblock sites permanently to fix this. There is absolutely no reason why I should have to turn off all Phishing & malware alerts just because Google suddenly got a paycheck from the MPAA/RIAA. Whatever their reason is, it doesn't matter, as it leads to unsafe browsing regardless. Way to go Google!

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anonbanker将近 10 年前

This is some pretty hillarious bureaucracy we're seeing here. First, the world was noticed [0] that google would begin blocking "Unwanted Software", and included a link [1] to their "unwanted software policy". This means that they can claim they gave all the torrent sites good faith notice since february, and even though none of them realized that they would be considered unwanted software, the time ran out, and google quietly swept these sites under the rug. They don't seem to be retracting this, either, which means this is business as usual.I consider this action to be further proof that "Don't Be Evil" died with Eric Schmidt coming on board. This is stuff I'd expect out of Microsoft, but it still surprises me when Google does it.0. <a href="http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.nl/2015/02/more-protection-from-unwanted-software.html" rel="nofollow">http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.nl/2015/02/more-protect...</a>1. <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/company/unwanted-software-policy.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/company/unwanted-softwa...</a>

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noobie将近 10 年前

Instructions to turning the warning off can be found here[0].0.<a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/99020?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/99020?hl=en</a>

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gp7将近 10 年前

Given the average user's ability to figure out that blue download buttons are not in fact download buttons, just ad sites that offer you your download by name but in fact give you malware, this is the correct decision

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7952将近 10 年前

I wonder if politicians have started to notice how much power a few browser makers have? Protecting Mozilla is so important for the future of the web.

yc1010将近 10 年前

Is this due to these sites having a lot of advertising (probably serving malware) or is this a deliberate attack from the media industry by trying to scare people?

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jokoon将近 10 年前

I remember that i was getting popups on many torrent sites just by clicking on the search input field or selecting text, even on tpb and kat.Not very surprised. The ads they get are pretty bad, and i wonder if the mpaa or riaa don't have some cog in there.

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ksk将近 10 年前

Rather amusing to see an advertising company like Google protecting Chrome users from these "extra ads".I wonder if an OS could block Google's software for vacuuming your information to Google's servers, never to be deleted.

pessimizer将近 10 年前

It's probably a single sketchy ad network if not a single sketchy ad. Most torrent sites use the same few networks; there aren't a lot of choices if you're a torrent site.I don't understand the commotion - the warnings look typical, I'm glad google provides them, and they're easy enough to bypass (at your own peril esp. if you use Windows.)I resent this story for forcing me to say something nice about google. There's a multitude of better reasons not to use Chrome.

scottmcdot将近 10 年前

This alternative link [1] to KAT doesn't have the security error.[1] <a href="http://thekatroxy.net/" rel="nofollow">http://thekatroxy.net/</a>

oneubauer将近 10 年前

FWIW this isn't just affecting torrent sites. Some software repos have also been affected recently.

Houshalter将近 10 年前

It's probably a false positive from an ad or user content linking to malware. It's already been fixed.

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wnevets将近 10 年前

half of the links on these pages (not the torrents) lead to malware, surprised its taken this long.

dimino将近 10 年前

All the sites listed were unblocked on Chrome 43.0.2357.132 (64-bit) for OS X.

superasn将近 10 年前

Not just Kick ass torrents, but almost all major torrent sites including Torrentz, ExtraTorrent and RARBG [1][1] <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/chrome-blocks-major-torrent-sites-over-harmful-programs-150710/" rel="nofollow">https://torrentfreak.com/chrome-blocks-major-torrent-sites-o...</a>

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chippy将近 10 年前

TorrentFreak Article about this: <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/chrome-blocks-major-torrent-sites-over-harmful-programs-150710/" rel="nofollow">https://torrentfreak.com/chrome-blocks-major-torrent-sites-o...</a>

kbatten将近 10 年前

Shouldn't google block youtube if they care about massive corporate supported copyright infringement?

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kp25将近 10 年前

Seems like they(3rd party) haven't found a way to stop piracy and started trying so hard to add malicious code, which may lead to blocking out these websites by all the major browser vendors and reduce piracy to some extent.The one behind this, You're gonna lose the war.!

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