Friday, September 16, 2016

Google doesn’t want you visiting The Pirate Bay right now


Try hitting up The Pirate Bay to look for torrents with Chrome or Firefox and you’ll most likely see a malware warning message. VentureBeat spotted the issue, which appears to affect only torrent search result pages – that means the entire domain hasn’t been blocked. It’s possible that the site is hosting an ad network that’s running malicious ads. I tried a few searches and noticed that the warning appeared only in certain instances on result pages. Still, that was enough to raise a flag with Google’s Safe Browsing service, which powers security features for both aforementioned browsers. If an…

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