Google Targets Fake "Download" and "Play" Buttons (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 4, 2016 @07:52AM from the no-mallet-big-enough-for-justice dept.

AmiMoJo writes: Google says it will go to war against the fake 'download' and 'play' buttons that attempt to deceive users on file-sharing and other popular sites. According to a new announcement from the company titled 'No More Deceptive Download Buttons', Google says it will expand its eight-year-old Safe Browsing initiative to target some of the problems highlighted above. 'You may have encountered social engineering in a deceptive download button, or an image ad that falsely claims your system is out of date. Today, we're expanding Safe Browsing protection to protect you from such deceptive embedded content, like social engineering ads,' the company says.

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Re-purpose by SuperKendall · 2016-02-04 07:59 · Score: 4, Funny

How would Google target them
You know that 20% of free project time Google employees get? Yeah, now it's looking for download button images.
It's not even like they lose anything as they only tell the Google workers that were surfing porn anyway to save off URL's as they browse.

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Re:A question by omnichad · 2016-02-04 08:14 · Score: 5, Funny

You're right. We need cross-platform compatibility for malware. Who's with me?