(1)Most of the returned links to FR articles were marked: "This site may harm your computer."
Posted on 06/25/2016 4:33:09 PM PDT by Future Useless Eater
Visitors who try to use Google to search for "Clinton suspicious deaths", are warned to NOT visit Free Republic.
The following Google search returned THREE levels of warnings which is enough to scare away most people from visiting the FR link...
(1)Most of the returned links to FR articles were marked: "This site may harm your computer."
Thank you
Just to be clear I outlined two separate potential fixes. The first is a 5-minute job, but the second could be quite a bit of work, so I wouldn’t recommend the second route unless the first route did not work.
It should work, but it’s a bit of an unusual situation since the first fix is actually a bit of a kludge that takes advantage of the fact that the forward slash delimits directories and is also used in URLs with “http:// “.
I’d give the easy way about an 80% chance of working, otherwise there’s probably a full day’s work in dealing with it through .htaccess using the second solution.
There are other potential solutions as well but they are also labor-intensive.
“Or you can continue to http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://www.westernjournalism.com/look-what-awful-thing-just-happened-to-another-clinton-white-house-employee-a-hillary-hire/ at your own risk.”
Changing robots.txt or adding .htaccess files are both webmaster functions.
Once upon a time, if you clicked an article link, a brief reminder that you were going to an external site would appear. Then it would redirect you to the site. Example. Google would follow those spurious links, adding useless entries to its index. Apparently, it's algorithms now consider such redirect links to be not just useless, but suspicious. Hence the warnings.
The solution is to adjust robots.txt to not follow those links and then request a re-indexing (also a webmaster function).
The problem is using Google. Bing is better; Startpage is wonderful.
startpage.com gives similar warnings when using the same search criteria “clinton suspicious deaths site:freerepublic.com”
I get more relevant results from Google than Bing. So much so that I avoid Bing as much as possible. The problem here isn't necessarily Google, it's whoever is reporting FR as a malicious site over and over to Google.
I searched for that plus free Republic - got lots of results referencing freerepublic.com with no warnings.
I avoid Google as much as possible.
You’re being redirected. Look at the full url addy.
Ugh, you are right :(
Hope this can be undone!
Posters whose first language is NOT English, or native Americans who couldn't be bothered to learn their own language (or are feebleminded) are a constant irritation.
This headline is a classic example : for the lack of a simple preposition.
I spent too much time trying to understand the syntax (usually instantaneous) out of perverse curiosity.
If I valued my time I would simply skip the less competent or simply careless posters.
"Google searches FOR "Clinton crimes" are scared away from visiting FR" shouldn't be that difficult to proofread... prior to posting.
Looks like an open campaign to ignore criminality and promote power mongering from the left.
I was surprised by the gross lack of discernment at snopes regarding the Clinton Body Count list. It took more effort to deny the documentation than to simply ignore it.
The redirection pages forwarding users to another site is triggering Google’s malware warnings - and properly so, since redirects to other domains is a key technique of malicious/infected websites.
The most straightforward fix here is to have the redirect pages removed from the index via a robots.txt statement, then trigger a reindexing of the site through Webmaster Tools.
I am not a web page designer or programmer and probably never will be, but I do know this : Any link of any sort that "redirects" me I want no part of.
I use Windows 7 Home premium, and if there is a "preferences" setting in IE11 to never allow redirection, I would be grateful to learn of it.
I've had too many close calls... and life is too short to tolerate lazy or sloppy programmers.
The redirect links on FR are for sending you to the source article’s page to read the full article (you see the links in the post below the title).
But the warnings analyzer can’t interpret the page. It just says tilt.
It at least used to be possible, when filling out the posting form of FR, to enter an incomplete URL (like www.abc.com rather than http://www.abc.com), whereupon the redirect would try to go to a nonexistent page on FR.
Good rebuttal points. Thanks.
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