r/WTF•
ericje

How to get rid of your users, Myspace style

How to get rid of your users, Myspace style

Posted Oct 20, 2010, 4:38 PM UTC

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frenchphrasebook•

any myspace user can customise their profile to include elements that are hosted on any site, so this error should only exist for that user. If you go to another profile, it shouldn't occur. In fairness, it's not really their fault. The profile's owner probably only links to the site that host's the malware but google is probably being a little overzelous. I know this happened to me once on a forum where I got that message for one thread because someone linked to a site that had been hacked. The owner of the site hadn't been aware.

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dropcode•

What you mean is, How to misappropriate problems, chrome style.

The owner of that myspace profile put links to an offsite source that google has flagged as dangerous. A better solution may have been for chrome to load the profile without the untrusted elements, giving a warning indicating as much as well as an option to trust the content at the users discretion. That way the danger would be properly appropriated, from the perspective of the end-user, to the offending party.

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