Posted on 08/30/2022 8:22:28 PM PDT by re_tail20
The Google “Goliath” has finally outdone itself in its campaign to completely destroy the WND “David,” the small Christian journalism operation that somehow refuses to die, despite continual attacks from all sides.
For the past week, Google has been warning everyone on the internet who tries to access WND.com via Google that the 25-year-old pioneering news website is outright dangerous to their computer!
This is no exaggeration: Reports from readers from all over confirm what WND’s staffers and independent tech team have been experiencing continually for the last week: When they try to reach WND by way of Google, clicking on the “WND: Home” link that Google provides leads not to WND.com, but to a threatening page saying: "Warning — visiting this web site may harm your computer!"
Here’s a screenshot of the page:
Ironically, if you click on Google’s own “Safe Browsing diagnostic page” link, you get taken to a page labeled “Safe Browsing Site Status” which clearly states: “No unsafe content found.” (See screenshot below.) This deceitful and profoundly destructive attack on WND persists day after day, despite multiple appeals to Google by WND’s tech team.
Perhaps even more concerning, WND is simultaneously receiving a flood of reader reports that subscribers to WND’s email news alerts are finding WND’s emails being redirected to their spam folders! Even when subscribers go to the trouble of repeatedly designating that WND’s emails are not spam, our emails continue to go to their spam folder, many have told us. For some readers, the live links to various stories on WND’s news alerts are now also dead – that is, recipients cannot click through to the story being promoted.
Evidently, once WND was officially – and falsely – condemned by Google as “harmful to your computer,” the various email providers took the cue...
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Goes without saying - WND.com has a standard https security certificate.
I kinda like WND stories but they’re so heavy with ads I’ve hardly gone there in 20 years.
My browsers don’t seem to be able to handle it.
That being said, Google 🙄🙄🙄
https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=https:%2F%2Fwww.wnd.com%2F&hl=en
Current status No unsafe content found
Both DuckDuckGo and Bing (Microsoft) are still sane - as the link works normally on both.
Lawsuit material.
They probably have an advertiser with bad, corrupt, or malicious code. That does happen, frequently years ago with Drudge Report etc.
Kind of goes to say, why I am ending Google tomorrow. ;l::.
Goodbuy!
If you have an url registered with one company, but the site hosted by another, who do you buy the security cert from? The registrar or the host?
Wish I were a lawyer - HUGE lawsuit.
I actually know very little about them - other than that a website that has one shouldn’t put a computer in danger of being affected by a deadly virus.
Google is a virus!
Good call. I was betting on the cert expiring, but I’m thinking you probably nailed it.
Same experience here. I came to the belief that WND had unwittingly hired a malicious programmer that made their site ridiculously difficult to navigate, and I gave up going there. But it could also have been my outdated equipment & browser.
Time to join the “sue Google” line.
Except that Google own “Safe browsing site” says “No unsafe content found”.
Would I be correct in assuming they are lying, again, and again, and again?
I don’t get that warning. Perhaps that is due to the fact that I don’t allow Google to be my default search engine.
Which is why I use ad blockers. Sites do not police the ads that appear on their sites very well. The ad conglomerates that spoon these ads out do not police them either.
From a place like DigiCert.
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