Google Launches Chrome Extension For Flagging Bad URLs To the Safe Browsing Team

Google today launched a new Chrome extension that will simplify the process of reporting a malicious site to the Google Safe Browsing team so that it can be analyzed, reviewed, and blacklisted in Chrome and other browsers that support the Safe Browsing API. From a report: Named the Suspicious Site Reporter, this extension adds an icon to the Google Chrome toolbar that when pressed, opens a popup window from where users can file an automatic report for the current site they're on, and which they suspect might be up to no good. "If the site is added to Safe Browsing's lists, you'll not only protect Chrome users but users of other browsers and across the entire web," said Emily Schechter, Chrome Product Manager. The Safe Browsing API is implemented not only in the mobile and desktop versions of Chrome but also in the mobile and desktop versions of Mozilla Firefox and Apple's Safari.

I went to report ...

[CaptainDork]

... Trump's Twitter account but OJ beat me to it.

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[fahrbot-bot]

... Trump's Twitter account but OJ beat me to it.

Try again. Press the other submit button.

That's exactly what they want -- for us to submit.

If they make it trivially easy to report sites

[93 Escort Wagon]

It's guaranteed to be abused.

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[alvinrod]

If social media has shown us anything it's that there's no way that legions of people who don't like what you have to say would never resort to using a report button of some kind to try to get you taken off the internet. Given how poorly other sites (some of them even Google owned) handle this kind of abuse of reporting systems, I don't expect this extension to fare any better.

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[AmiMoJo]

Any site left of centre will be immediately flagged, you can guarantee that.

I really hope they have a good spam filter.

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[gravewax]

Microsoft has had this feature for a long time in ie and edge and yeah it is abused. though they must be doing more manual checking now as it is getting less and less common to see a legitimate site blacklisted.

Can't Wait

[Geek_Cop]

To report all my competitors.

I reported ...

[CaptainDork]

... google.com.

We'll see.

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[CanadianMacFan]

Find the home site for the Google Safe Browsing team and report them.

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[Anonymous Coward]

This is why the world has virtual machines.

Spin one up, do something, then burn it to the ground.

There have been VM exploits, but they are very rare (provided you don't expose a lot of the host to the VM), and mostly not exploitable via Javascript anyway.

Maybe I'm a pessimist

[scdeimos]

Google announces new product. Please welcome Google Racketeering!

If you pay us a fee we'll ignore any submissions from the Suspicious Site Reporter so your business can keep operating and generating an income for you.

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[infolation]

Hey Google, nice little website you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it...

Another way to track people

[CanadianMacFan]

It's also another way to track people, where they are browsing, and what their views are (by what they are reporting).

Hawt DAMN!!!

[SirAstral]

There is not going to be enough popcorn for this ones folks!

Stay tuned!!!

ha ha ha hahaaaa!

[REPORTED] muthafucka!!!!

~Edna Bambrick

Frikkin' finally.

[sabbede]

Microsoft has built this into their browsers for a while now. Very easy and convenient. Google's way, where you have to look up the reporting site and enter everything into it, sucks. Sucks hard.

This shouldn't be an extension, it should be built into Chrome. But, something is better than nothing, so this is a good thing overall.