Chrome and Firefox Block Torrent Site YTS Over 'Phishing' (torrentfreak.com) 34
Chrome and Firefox are blocking direct access to the movie download pages of popular torrent site YTS. According to Google's safe browsing report, YTS.mx is a "deceptive site" that may trick visitors into doing dangerous things. The warning is likely the result of malicious advertisements. TorrentFreak reports: While the site's homepage can be visited just fine, navigating to a torrent detail page throws up the following warning in Chrome. "Deceptive site ahead. Attackers on yts.mx may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing your personal information (for example, passwords, phone numbers, or credit cards)." Firefox shows a similar alert and also prevents people from going directly to the download pages. In both browsers, people can, however, accept the risk and visit the page they were looking for.
It's not clear what the exact problem is but the Chrome warning mentions that YTS was caught phishing. This is also reflected in Google's Safe Browsing report, which states the torrent site recently tried to trick visitors into sharing personal info or downloading software. Whether any of this is intentional remains a question. It seems more likely that the warning was triggered by some type of malicious advertisement.
It's not clear what the exact problem is but the Chrome warning mentions that YTS was caught phishing. This is also reflected in Google's Safe Browsing report, which states the torrent site recently tried to trick visitors into sharing personal info or downloading software. Whether any of this is intentional remains a question. It seems more likely that the warning was triggered by some type of malicious advertisement.
Does chromium also do this? (Score:2)
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Just wondering (Score:2)
If mainstream browsers block sites then what is to stop them from strong arming little players in the game?
An academic google site I put together was DMCA bombed and after 8 weeks I still know nothing about what content was problematic, no issues removing anything. Businesses have been hit worse from what I've read.
Google? (Score:2)
Its your app, Google, and your advertising network, Google, on your operating system, Google.
Go fuck yourself, Google.
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Re:Google? (Score:4, Funny)
That's malware spreading, no phishing. I'm sure that marketing people at google will be happy to explain to you why former is acceptable while latter is not.
Re:Google? (Score:4, Funny)
I'll hold security information from marketing goons in roughly the same esteem as contraception tips from catholic priests.
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Hashtag thatsthejoke.
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I'll hold security information from marketing goons in roughly the same esteem as contraception tips from catholic priests.
Last I checked not a single altar boy has gotten pregnant, so is "gross but effective" what you were thinking of?
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Malware is software that damages your system/data.
Phishing is a method to get people to download something they didn't want to get.
Often a Phishing tactic is used to get people to download Malware.
Go to a gaming site, find a game that is notorious for bugs, but is a good game inspire of the bugs. Put a link to an unofficial patch, that suppose to fix the problem. Then there you go.
Torrent isn't intrinsically bad, however it covers the malware makers tracks rather easily.
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I've had people argue with a straight face that Google can't possibly control all its ads on its network, or that the ads "come from a different company". Meanwhile if you type Gong Fei [twitter.com] in hanzi your comment is automatically deleted.
You know where their loyalties are.
Re: Google? (Score:1)
Individually persecuting you, no doubt.
Brave allows access (Score:1)
I was able to get to the home page fine with Brave and Palemoon.
Though now there's a lot of cop cars with flashing lights around my house... i wonder who's in trouble?
That's why I use Linux to torrent. (Score:2)
VMs are optional for Windows users.
Re: That's why I use Linux to torrent. (Score:1)
Bit of an overkill?
This isn't a big deal (Score:1)
well it is yify... (Score:1)
Never heard of the site and now i know why. Its that stupid dick YIFY whoes releases with shit audio quality pollute the internet drowning out quality 5.1 rips.
Go fuck yourself and your stereo sound YIFY!!! i accidentally download your garbage all the time.
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I let you in on a secret: The reason why most movies suck isn't bad audio quality. If anything, bad audio quality lets you concentrate on the content a bit more because there's less distraction.
Just use NoScript and uBlock Origin (Score:3)
You will have to grant temporary access through NoScript for the YTS.mx domain in order for it to work. Don't grant a permanent white-list, because duh, it's a pirate site.
Don't lower your shields in Brave, and do not disable uBlock either, the site works fine with all of those active and running.
Don't try to use the quick search bar on the top of the browser, use the one on the page itself. That thing doesn't seem to work right, and I'm not interested in enabling anything that would make it work.
It should go without saying, that you should not be doing anything in there without a proper VPN.
Re: Just use NoScript and uBlock Origin (Score:1)
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Make that a freshly reverted VM on a burner box that you immediately revert again after use.
No problem accessing with Firefox (Score:1)
meh (Score:4, Insightful)
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If you can't navigate your way past these issues you really should not be on this part of the internet.
You are blaming the victim. If my grandmother can't surf the net safely, the fix isn't to let her get scammed to teach her a lesson. Only libertarian nutbars think that way.
Toxic cesspools on the net need to be purged -- as quickly, violently and publicly as possible.
Think about it: When cops find a meth lab in a neighborhood, they burn it down. They do not allow it to continue to ruin lives in the name of teaching people a lesson.
So...no. Your attitude towards this issue is wrong. Demonstrably wrong.
Shady sites attract shady advertisers (Score:2)
With all that, I'm kind of surprised that browsers haven't been putting warnings in front of these sites for years.