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Chrome and Firefox Flag The Pirate Bay As a 'Phishing' Site...Again (torrentfreak.com)
The Pirate Bay's download pages are being blocked by Chrome and Firefox. These pages have been flagged as "deceptive," by Google's safe browsing program. TorrentFreak reports that "millions" of Pirate Bay users are currently unable to access the torrent detail pages on the site without receiving a stark warning. The report adds: The homepage and various categories can be reached without problems, but when visitors navigate to a download page they are presented with an ominous red warning banner. According to Google the notorious torrent site is linked to a phishing effort, where malicious actors try to steal the personal information of visitors. It's likely that the security error is caused by a malicious third-party advertisement. The TPB team informs TorrentFreak that they are aware of the issue, which they hope will be resolved soon.
It is true, because it happened to me not an hour ago. Thanks for trolling though!
In all fairness the amount of dodgy shit on TPB both uploaded by criminals with root kits and governments/Hollywood mafia unless you know what you are doing it is most definitely a very unsafe site for a user to be using.
from time to time. Remember this is partly based on user reports.
I'm sure the majority of Slashdot users are savvy and looking for specific things (like free Linux ISOs or creative commons content... right). I would bet a nickle there are threats that people have encountered downloading things willy-nilly from the PirateBay. I've heard of music and movie files that were really executables, for example. I'm also fairly confident that malware comes through ads from time to time which many less-experienced users are going to be seeing.
So for many Windows users I would rate many torrent indexing sites as high risk for malware infection. Sad thing is, that's pretty meaningless though as commonly used "legitimate" commercial sites get malware in their ad networks from time to time. uBlock (origin?), and ghostery are standard installs for any computer I work on for friends and family. Just can't risk it today.
The thousands of peers are fake. however I actually really like the fake torrents, they are braindead simple to spot as they are nearly always the same size and always have the same dumb arse comment on them and always have X thousand peers even though they were only uploaded 10 seconds ago and also uploaded in bulk by the same unverified user. What it does do for me though is gives me a nice list of all the upcoming movies that I need to search for.
In principle I think you have a point. But I don't think Congress extending copyright law to 100's of years is really in the interest of the vast majority of citizens. I accuse our democracy system of being subverted by special interests. My elected officials cease being my representatives when they take millions in contributions for a handful of corporate donors.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
I didn't elect them, I don't live in USA, nor is TPB a US based site.
I think you typed the word "bribes" wrong, it's not spelled "contributions"
Pirate Bay has categories "Applications" and "Games" (aka executables). It seems most of these are supposedly hacked to get around the licensing check.
Chrome may be indicating that some of these hacked executables are ... wait for it ... HACKED!
That wouldn't be possible, since there are no executables on the pirate bay to download.
Those pages have only an SHA1 hash, which is all that's required to get the needed magnet link into your bittorrent client.
Any potential infected executables would be coming in over your bittorrent client, and would be completely invisible to your web browser.
That said, the site does use an ad network, which many of the smaller ad networks are known to deliver malware via javascript and such.
Malware containing ads are certainly delivered through the browser, and are a legit infection method to be blocked.
NoScript or a similar extension would provide full protection in such a case.
AdBlock I would like to think would also block the maware containing ads, but these days that's less assured and I don't feel like going there to verify that.
It's the pop-up ads that is doing this, not the pirate bay main site. When you click on a link, it brings a pop-up, and that's what is triggering the phishing report.
If you're using Firefox, switch to Pale Moon - it's basically Firefox before the suckage grew to ginormous proportions. If you're using Chrome... well, I don't know what to tell you. I never could stand it.
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