And I liked it! It felt gooooood.
Posted on 10/27/2015 5:21:09 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Basically, it's full of crap. Apparently, they have two issues with FR. One is that a user (a long-time user not a hacker) posted a link to an image that (unknown to him) resides on a site google has registered in their database as a malware site. We've pulled the post and notified google. Have no idea when they'll stop flagging us.
The other is that we have links to aim.org. NSS. Aim is a conservative site. Have no idea how many, but I'm sure we've had hundreds or even thousands of links posted to aim.org. We're not going to pull them.
Why google is apparently randomly flagging unrelated threads on FR I have no idea. Your guess is good as mine.
But it's not just google Chrome. Any browser that relies on google's database is doing this.
If you want to stop these erroneous and obnoxious warning messages immediately, you can set a browser option to ignore such warnings. Your virus protection software will catch any real viruses.
Thank you all very much for notifying me. I've received dozens and dozens of these already. Sorry, cannot answer each one individually.
Like you, I use AdBlock (and Ghostery, too).
I'm not claiming it would have helped you with access to FreeRepublic today. It's simply a way to protect you from malware distributed via advertising aggregators, as well as from other annoying ads.
I didn't see a problem at all, today. And I have the option to "block reported attack sites" turned on.
IE7
Adblock and Ghostery
No problems or warnings on Google, Dogpile or Startpage searches.
See post 37 for another opinion.
Maybe people that have gotten the warning should clear their browser cache too.
Not obvious what their issue is.
What setting did I mess up in Firefox now?! LOL!!!
BTW, I concur with you that using AdBlock and Ghostery really makes browsing the web much nicer. Not downloading all the stupid ads, animations and flash b.s. makes things much nicer and faster.
I use Chrome and all you gotta do is go ‘Settings - Advanced Settings - (uncheck the box that says “Protect you and your device from malicious websites”)’
Ok...I hit to go ahead with FR site...so we’ll see....thanks
ROFL! Any internet that you're on I'm gonna want protection from my friend!
Ok.....I cleared my browser.....also clicked on ‘details’ on the red screen and where it says to ‘continue onto Fr site’....so far it’s not popping up anymore.
And I liked it! It felt gooooood.
And I liked it! It felt gooooood.
Good here with Kindle’s Silk.
I’ll go ahead and take all the credit for posting about it first. :-)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3353470/posts
This really helped. Thank you.
If there is a news story or even a blog story or video on this, you can ping it to Drudge. It might put some pressure on google to stop censoring conservative sites.
humblegunner’s fault.
I’m using Google Chrome and I haven’t seen a single issue.
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