Chrome Blocking Major Torrent Sites Over “Harmful Programs”

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While I am sure it sucks to have your torrent site blocked by Chrome, I think we all know why Google is doing it.

Starting today Google Chrome is blocking direct access to several large torrent sites including KickassTorrents, Torrentz, ExtraTorent and RARBG. According to Google the sites contain "harmful programs" but the site owners are clueless as to what they've done wrong.
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I doubt the people already visiting torrent sites are going to have much trouble downloading Firefox.
 
Kat.cr works just fine for me in Chrome.....shouldn't it be blocked?

I use FF as my main browser but have Chrome installed as a backup.....maybe that's why?
 
And that's another good reason why I never abandoned FireFox, they are all about the user first.

Showing your true colors, ehh google?
 
at the Mozilla corp office

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Reminds me of when Google search results omitted results, but they showed you the complaint form so you could just copy and paste the addresses, and find other good sites :D
 
Google's been slowly trying to do this for awhile with the warning page. So now they're trying to go all fascist U.K. with straight up telling you that you cannot go there with their browser? Is that what I'm getting?

It's a good time to be a Firefox user (with massive addon's to make it look and feel functional again).
 
Fortunately, this is an easy workaround by disabling phishing and malware protection in advanced settings.

One more stunt like this and I'm back to FF.
 
I only use Chrome if a page doesn't work in FF (which means basically that Asteroids youtube video Steve posted last week).
 
jojo69 said:
at the Mozilla corp office

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Seriously. Thinking Firefox is looking pretty good right about now. You can disable this stupid feature, and if you read the TorrentFreak article it will tell you how, but still... This is a bad move on Google's part, and enough to make me think twice about using Chrome.
 
Good thing I am using Firefox as well. Regardless of whether we use torrent or not, this is a bullshit move by Google. With this policy, whenever someone receive that warning, they are going to be second guessing whether it was a truly malicious site or just censorship by Google.
 
Well, considering the number of fools that download and run bins from torrent sites, that kinda makes sense.
 
All you have to do in Chrome is click on Details, accept the warning, and you can still go to the site. They are not totally blocking access.

I'm surprised their DNS is still resolving some of the sites - I have been using the Google DNS service for a few years. It still finds the sites.

Also, I don't Torrent so really don't care that much in this case. If they acted as judge/jury/executioner, I'd gt a little excited as they should not have that power. Since they are letting people know these sites might have malware, I don't really see that as a bad thing.
 
steakman1971 said:
All you have to do in Chrome is click on Details, accept the warning, and you can still go to the site. They are not totally blocking access.

I'm surprised their DNS is still resolving some of the sites - I have been using the Google DNS service for a few years. It still finds the sites.

Also, I don't Torrent so really don't care that much in this case. If they acted as judge/jury/executioner, I'd gt a little excited as they should not have that power. Since they are letting people know these sites might have malware, I don't really see that as a bad thing.
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For the longest time marijuana was legal, you just needed a license. transporting/possessing it was illegal without a license. To get a license you had to bring a sample in. Which was illegal to do if you didn't already have a license.

So technically it was legal to have pot, but there was zero way to get it legally. Its also even easier to make it even possible but so impractical nobody tries.

The average person would never click through that warning out of sheer terror.

Its like the 'right to be forgotten'. Its technically not censorship since they aren't forcing the content publisher to take something down. But finding it without a public search engine for most people would be so high friction, it effectively taken down for 99.95% of the public and it is de facto censorship.
 
I never did have much love for chrome. Now I really dislike it. This is such a screwed up thing to do.
 
Kueller said:
I doubt the people already visiting torrent sites are going to have much trouble downloading Firefox.
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Or just click "visit this site" at the bottom in Chrome. It's not really "blocked", they just give you a warning that the site could be harmful.
 
The torrent site owners know damn well what they are doing wrong. I can't browse KAT for any amount of time without getting a dozen pop-ups telling me my flash player is out of date and I have a billion infections. Stop cramming malware down peoples throat and you guys won't be flagged, it doesn't have anything to do with hosting torrents.
 
Kardonxt said:
The torrent site owners know damn well what they are doing wrong. I can't browse KAT for any amount of time without getting a dozen pop-ups telling me my flash player is out of date and I have a billion infections. Stop cramming malware down peoples throat and you guys won't be flagged, it doesn't have anything to do with hosting torrents.
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I get NONE of what you get...EVER...Maybe it's because i use adblock and disconnect for most sites.
 
Kardonxt said:
The torrent site owners know damn well what they are doing wrong. I can't browse KAT for any amount of time without getting a dozen pop-ups telling me my flash player is out of date and I have a billion infections. Stop cramming malware down peoples throat and you guys won't be flagged, it doesn't have anything to do with hosting torrents.
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Adblock is your friend lol.
 
Kardonxt said:
The torrent site owners know damn well what they are doing wrong. I can't browse KAT for any amount of time without getting a dozen pop-ups telling me my flash player is out of date and I have a billion infections. Stop cramming malware down peoples throat and you guys won't be flagged, it doesn't have anything to do with hosting torrents.
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6 years here? Really?
C'mon man, you're making [H] look bad with comments like that.
 
What sucks about it is that these warnings started without a Chrome version update. The workaround is to disable phishing and malware protection in the advanced settings, but that makes the problem even worse.
 
Kueller said:
6 years here? Really?
C'mon man, you're making [H] look bad with comments like that.
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You guys are ignoring the problem that is their shady ass website causing the problem getting them blocked by google. Then they play the victim. Just because you wear a bullet proof vest doesn't make it OK for people to shoot you in the chest.

Yes running adblock will resolve the pop-ups but it doesn't make them any less deserving of being blocked by chrome.

I don't torrent enough to care and while I run adblock on our media center and my GFs machines I know better than to click on scam ads so I don't worry about it on my rig. I would rather websites I visit like [H] or random google searches get their ad revenue from my visits. I highly doubt most (if any) of you create rules to allow every legit site you visit to display ads.

Take your high horses some place else. While I'm being "a newb" and not running adblock 1/2 of you are being dicks and blocking [H]'s revenue stream right now. Who's really harming [H]?
 
Kardonxt said:
You guys are ignoring the problem that is their shady ass website causing the problem getting them blocked by google. Then they play the victim. Just because you wear a bullet proof vest doesn't make it OK for people to shoot you in the chest.

Yes running adblock will resolve the pop-ups but it doesn't make them any less deserving of being blocked by chrome.

I don't torrent enough to care and while I run adblock on our media center and my GFs machines I know better than to click on scam ads so I don't worry about it on my rig. I would rather websites I visit like [H] or random google searches get their ad revenue from my visits. I highly doubt most (if any) of you create rules to allow every legit site you visit to display ads.

Take your high horses some place else. While I'm being "a newb" and not running adblock 1/2 of you are being dicks and blocking [H]'s revenue stream right now. Who's really harming [H]?
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You be surprise how easy it is to add [H] to the whitelist. I would think most of us regulars do
 
Kardonxt said:
The torrent site owners know damn well what they are doing wrong. I can't browse KAT for any amount of time without getting a dozen pop-ups telling me my flash player is out of date and I have a billion infections. Stop cramming malware down peoples throat and you guys won't be flagged, it doesn't have anything to do with hosting torrents.
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So do porn sites and they've since cleaned up their act quite a bit in comparisons to some legitimate sites out there today. In fact taking off ad block makes some sites completely foreign. Get that people need to make money to do what they're doing, but for the love of god work together and FIND A BETTER WAY.


Then again I've always taken the notion when it comes to porn and torrent sites that if you visit shady areas, expect to see shady practices. Same precautions you'd take when dealing with hookers. Always double wrap it before you tap it.
 
Is there something better than Firefox though? I tried going back to it a couple weeks ago but all I had were just problems with it. Plugins crashing, UI sucking even after trying to customize it. I mean, sure they don't try to pull the shit Chrome does but it's still pretty shitty based on my experience with it.

I will say that I liked the video downloaders and how you were actually able to download YouTube vids.
 
Chrome's whole site-blocking is bullshit.

We've basically had to stop our clients from using it because it breaks several of our sites.

Basically any aliased domain breaks under this. We have a domain alias with a short name because some of our customers are old and/or stupid and have problems getting 6 characters right. Trying to talk them into typing our normal domain (16 characters) name would basically have us hanging up on them after an hour of pure futility.

But, because it's aliased, Chrome simply refuses to allow it through, and it's just easier to have them use another browser than it is to try and talk them through how to get around Chrome's idiocy.
 
I am guessing FF won't be far behind, so keep Palemoon / Waterfox in mind just in case.
 
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