FYI: A "Dangerous" site alert from Chrome came up while accessing this thread on FreeRepublic. This has never happened before (at least since 1998) ... Just thought everyone would want to know. I sent Google appropriate feedback on the warning. The text of the "red text" warning is reported below):
"This site is deceptive. Attackers on this site may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing your personal information (for example, passwords, phone numbers, or credit cards)."
Google Chrome now classifies a site as dangerous if it finds a link on that site to another site that has been compromised. In other words, it's the QAnon site link that is compromised not FreeRepublic.
The impersonation will collect your login username and password if you enter it. They have a fake login screen that looks just like freerepublic.com.
https will fail validation and warn the browser - which should give you some kind of warning message. The exact message depends on the browser. This is not some Google Chrome conspiracy.
If you get a warning message, do not login to Freerepublic else your credentials will be harvested. Exit the browser and try again a few minutes later. Or reboot your system. That will clear your local DNS cache.
DNS poisoning only lasts for a few minutes, so you won't get the same results every time. It is very specific to the router and the ISP that you are using.
The problem with that page is an image (in post 774) that loads from a “qanonposts.com” domain. See this link:
https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=https:%2F%2Fqanonposts.com%2Fimages%2F5c15e42b4bed2355fe8917d50ddb778d6d8a002d1d4590b1e7918ceef3e97531.jpg
In firefox the offending image just doesn’t load, but maybe other browsers block the FR page.
Note that the warning is that the site has been reported as deceptive. Libs reporting sites they don’t like will also get them onto that list.
