Stupid Google.
Testing.
Disturbing in that I suppose there is absolutely no way to know whether an image you wish to post is coming from a Google blacklisted site.
I’m getting duplicates posted at the exact same second, but fewer red screens.
BASTARDS!!!
Thanks Jim. Sorry you have an additional headache right now.
THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN IF YOU USE INTERNET EXPLORER
Pluswhich, if Google is going to be anti-conservative by design or error, there are plenty of free-market alternatives.
:-)
The AIM trigger may not have a political motivation. There is lots of bad website management out there, and lots of entry points for devious hackers and crackers.
Yeah, I was one responsible for about 5 duplicate posts yesterday. Every time I tried to post I went straight to the “attack site” warning page and didn’t realize the posts were still getting through to FR. Once I went back to the page I was pretty embarrassed to discover I had made the same post 5 times. My bad.
But I think Google is deliberately complicit in this. They could have removed that warning quickly if they were so inclined.
Google is the New Stasi, and they have decided not to permit thought with which they disagree.
Google's position is Gleichschaltung!
Personally I like the warnings. It reminds me several times per day who the enemy is.
BTW, What is NSS? Is it The National Speleological Society?
Not the red screen of horror again!
***
“Damn,” cursed the cyber expert in the bowels of the Democratic National Committee. “The Robinsons figured out the problem. I need further guidance on our next step.”
The expert left his desk, walked down the corridor to a gray gun-metal door. Punching a combination into the door lock and having his retina scanned, he walked through the door from the bowels of the Democratic National Committee....
...into the bowels of the Republican National Committee.
Jim-
Don’t know whether this is of assistance or not. Back during when our state was having the same-sex marriage fight a couple of years ago, church and religious sites here that believed in traditional marriage, including my church, were finding that their websites were being blocked as containing viruses or “child-unfriendly or harmful material” by various anti-virus and anti-spam programs.
What was eventually discovered was that “someone” (presumed to be the national pro-homosexual advocacy groups) had the ability to access anti-virus, anti-spam sites in Russia and reported and got their opponents listed there as harmful sites. The anti-virus companies around the world share their databases, so then the American anti-virus companies would pick up on the listings, would incorporate them into their lists, and would then block your church site as containing viruses/pornography, etc.
That problem stopped after a while, so McAfee et al. must have figured it out and received enough complaints that they did something about it. But since the listings were happening outside of the country through foreign-language sites that I assume never tried to verify the listings, that’s how they got control over what the American anti-spam/anti-virus companies were doing.
I don’t know if similar games are being played with FR by folks who want to shut it down. It sure sounds like the same tactic by someone who wants to mess around with you. You may want to try to contact the IP folks at groups like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, because I think they have gone through similar things as well and may be able to help you with a response.
What will be interesting is if my response also gets the harmful virus block when I try to post it now.
I got it again this morning and then went into FF tools>options>security and added FR as an exception.
So far so good, however the blocking came intermittently on different threads, so time will tell.
This post has been flagged as a potential malware site. You could receive viruses, malware, spyware, and ads for gay sex toys by visiting this post. If this message lasts for more than four hours, throw your computer out the window.
j/k.
Combined PING! and DANG!
This problem is now happening for many, many websites. Google safe search is now not just checking a website, but the LINKS to other websites, and if THOSE websites are “unsafe”, then google considers the referring website “unsafe” too. This is a total nightmare for any kind of website that accepts public posts that include links, and quite frankly, i don’t see how google can rationally keep the chains of “unsafe” sites from spreading indefinitely in any useful fashion.
Bottom line, excessive false alarms like these simply result in turning off the warning features in browsers and/or ignoring the alarms as most likely being erroneous. Google needs to realize that their safe search service would be MUCH more useful if they missed a few bad sites (which they are always going to anyway) and concentrate on eliminating false alarms that trash the confidence levels of their warnings.