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Poisoned Google Image Searches Becoming a Problem

Posted by Soulskill on from the quick-search-for-the-antidote dept.

Orome1 writes "If you are a regular user of Google's image search, you might have noticed that poisoned search results have practically become a common occurrence. Google has, of course, noticed this and does its best to mark the offending links as such, but they still have trouble when it comes to cleaning up its image search results."

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  1. Re:web 101: don't run unknown javascripts by blindseer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's 2011, there should not be anything a Javascript can do that is harmful to your computer.

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  2. a couple add ons that help by d6 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I surf with requestpolicy and noscript up. It is utterly amazing the number of websites that can't render a page without firing scripts or loading content from 6, 8, 10 or more different domains.
    If you haven't tried these, do it and be amazed at how many sites load without stylesheets, pictures etc. It's amazing how badly shit is implemented - zero thought about graceful degradation.

    no script
    requestpolicy