Why is google search just a malware injector

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Rmay635703

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It appears if you just click a link off Google search that appears to be on topic for the search you made, like searching for an old piece of electronic equipment, especially on a phone you just get all your passwords stolen by mearly reading the site and doing absolutely no interaction.

The internet is fully dead and extremely stupid and google doesn’t appear to notify you that it’s a bad site.

The days when you could safely browse the internet and discover new information is truly dead .
 
So you’re getting malware installed just by clicking on a Google link and it’s accessing your stored passwords on your phone?
 
I have Frontier/Verizon fiber with a couple of EROS modems. They block malware, bots and phishing. The reporting that is available tells you which device and the day it happened. These requests come in to your devices but the EROS blocks the devices from responding. My MAC devices get attacked but not a lot. My Android devices are free game for these attackers. Isn't android based off Google? I don't use Google at all. But if I turn on an Android device...look out.
 
Rmay635703 said:
It appears if you just click a link off Google search that appears to be on topic for the search you made, like searching for an old piece of electronic equipment, especially on a phone you just get all your passwords stolen by mearly reading the site and doing absolutely no interaction.

The internet is fully dead and extremely stupid and google doesn’t appear to notify you that it’s a bad site.

The days when you could safely browse the internet and discover new information is truly dead .
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Internet was never always "safe" or guarantee you "useful and new information" since inception.

Google is a search engine and whenever there's a ranking that leads to profit someone will try to game the system, regardless of what way you use to optimize it. In the future there will be jobs for people to optimize their website and information so they will "lobby" the AI to convince you it is the best, just like companies today hire sales and marketing people to do this to human.

Oh, we have freedom of speech. You would likely miss it when companies and governments start deciding what is good and not good for you, and credit card companies start telling game companies what games not to develop or they have to uglyfy the people inside for DEI or they will pull payment processing, or banning you from watching certain news stations because they are not patriotic enough, etc. You don't want that? You have to tolerate some junk info on the internet.
 
Rmay635703 said:
It appears if you just click a link off Google search that appears to be on topic for the search you made, like searching for an old piece of electronic equipment, especially on a phone you just get all your passwords stolen by mearly reading the site and doing absolutely no interaction.

The internet is fully dead and extremely stupid and google doesn’t appear to notify you that it’s a bad site.

The days when you could safely browse the internet and discover new information is truly dead .
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This is a bit like yelling at clouds, isn’t it?

When was the internet ever safe?

When did any search engine notify you that something was a “bad” site?

How did the site grab your passwords? …unless you entered them yourself, in which case, that’s completely on you.

And, ironically, here you are, on the internet, complaining that it is dead, and not useful, when clearly, you need it and clearly it is alive and well for you.
 
loneryder said:
I have Frontier/Verizon fiber with a couple of EROS modems. They block malware, bots and phishing. The reporting that is available tells you which device and the day it happened. These requests come in to your devices but the EROS blocks the devices from responding. My MAC devices get attacked but not a lot. My Android devices are free game for these attackers. Isn't android based off Google? I don't use Google at all. But if I turn on an Android device...look out.
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That would be EEROS modems.
 
loneryder said:
I have Frontier/Verizon fiber with a couple of EROS modems.
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loneryder said:
That would be EEROS modems.
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Try a third time? those aren't modems. :ROFLMAO:

The verizon box is an ONT(Fiber optical network terminal) which is the closest thing to a modem.

EEROS: one unit is a wifi router the other is a mesh WAP (wireless access point) connected to the first.
 
Rmay635703 said:
It appears if you just click a link off Google search that appears to be on topic for the search you made, like searching for an old piece of electronic equipment, especially on a phone you just get all your passwords stolen by mearly reading the site and doing absolutely no interaction.

The internet is fully dead and extremely stupid and google doesn’t appear to notify you that it’s a bad site.

The days when you could safely browse the internet and discover new information is truly dead .
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Are you clicking " Google.com and and the first possible 10 links shown, with the word AD showing you, it is a paid AD"? In which anyone who bought it "could " cycle in , redirects on a time based or page count set number , so Google doesn't catch on the AD is serving up redirects to malware sites, where authentication bypass vuls can be taken advantage of, as many other forms of malware can be utilized. Check Virustotal.com with your link then is your computer or router and or modem is an infected mess. DO you have an up to date router that is no longer then 3 years old and has been "consecutively" been checked for up to date firmware every month?

Reset your router if it older then 3 years old and manually force your DNS in your router to go to Quad9 > 9.9.9.9 or 9.9.9.11 or 149.112.112.112 or 149.112.112.11 . Then I also set my computer to one of those Quad9 DNS #'s as it then takes the DNS from the computer as it's final DNS and not the router that "could be" possibly compromised. Not that I can tell if my computer is Pwned, but I sure can't tell if my router has been Pwned since it is basically on it's own sitting on the edge of the internet. I also reflash to factory default my router every 2 years, and toss my router at year 6. I also have some high end White Hat Mac software for some added safety. Keep your guard up.

https://quad9.net/

https://objective-see.org/about.html#pWardleBio

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The first few links on a Google search are ads, and yes, they can get hijacked, though you'd still have to put in the information for it to get stolen. This is one of the reasons I block ads on Google both at home and in the environments I control, which prevents these results from showing up.
 
uc50ic4more said:
What's the link?! I'd love to see this.
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Yeah, thankfully didn’t happen to me but through the grapevine both Google search and IOS news has had malware sites linked.
I wouldn’t want to disseminate them further assuming they aren’t taken down


Astro14 said:
This is a bit like yelling at clouds, isn’t it?

When was the internet ever safe?

When did any search engine notify you that something was a “bad” site?

And, ironically, here you are, on the internet, complaining that it is dead, and not useful, when clearly, you need it and clearly it is alive and well for you.
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Historically google would flag bad sites right by the link, been a long time since I saw that.

I used to find hundreds of interesting websites up to about 15 years ago, most non-commercial, now I’m lucky if I find a couple a year that reach that bar, add that being hacked is now a passive activity, making basic functions unusable, makes it less likely.

Back when the internet was supposedly the most dangerous you knew instantly when you were being hacked and could shut off the connection and run antivirus, there are few signs now.

Mainia said:
Are you clicking " Google.com and and the first possible 10 links shown, with the word AD showing you, it is a paid AD"? In which anyone who bought it "could " cycle in , redirects on a time based or page count set number , so Google doesn't catch on the AD is serving up redirects to malware sites, where authentication bypass vuls can be taken advantage of, as many other forms of malware can be utilized. Check Virustotal.com with your link then is your computer or router and or modem is an infected mess. DO you have an up to date router that is no longer then 3 years old and has been "consecutively" been checked for up to date firmware every month?

Reset your router if it older then 3 years old and manually force your DNS in your router to go to Quad9 > 9.9.9.9 or 9.9.9.11 or 149.112.112.112
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The router I have now is under 2 years old back when last changed service.

Service gets flipped every time the deal runs out
 
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Rmay635703 said:
Yeah, thankfully didn’t happen to me but through the grapevine both Google search and IOS news has had malware sites linked.
I wouldn’t want to disseminate them further assuming they aren’t taken down

Historically google would flag bad sites right by the link, been a long time since I saw that.

I used to find hundreds of interesting websites up to about 15 years ago, most non-commercial, now I’m lucky if I find a couple a year that reach that bar, add that being hacked is now a passive activity, making basic functions unusable, makes it less likely.

Back when the internet was supposedly the most dangerous you knew instantly when you were being hacked and could shut off the connection and run antivirus, there are few signs now.

The router I have now is under 2 years old back when last changed service.

Service gets flipped every time the deal runs out
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The old saying "if you are not a paying customer you are a product". You didn't pay Google or any search engine to run operations for you then you kind of have to accept that they sell your viewing and search result to the highest bidders.

The reason any operation that "ban" or "block" something stopped working over time is those bad things evolve over time, and the blocker and protector whatever you call will also evolve over time. It is never constant and it is an arm race.

Interesting websites cost money to run, and with today's "we have to protect everyone" policy that you propose, it is cost prohibitive to run these sites as a hobby because 1) they will instantly get hijacked by malwares and attackers, and 2) you need to run an infrastructure that complies with the latest security or else browsers will block you or maybe remove them from your search. You can't have it both way wanting "interesting indie sites" and "Google must protect me in my search result". Pick one and stop complaining the other.

Antivirus are everywhere in the background now, even if you don't install them Windows will have one for you. It is not the virus that's a concern but rather phishing that's a concern these days. Virus is so 1990s.
 
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