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Comment by coldtea

5 years ago

>or adjust their algorithm to strongly err on the side of allowing phishing sites.

It'a not the role of Google to disallow phishing sites (as a browser) just like it's not the role of the ISP.

Make it hookable so people can chose their own phising protection service.

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bonoboTP  5 years ago

People wouldn't know or care which to pick. They would see the pop-up asking to select a phishing protection provider, would get confused and angry and think "where do I click to get past this pop-up, I want to go on Facebook and this stupid computer is nagging me with stuff again!"

Phishing protection is mostly needed for people who have no clear concept of phishing or technicalities. They just want to do things on the internet, like social media, they don't care about things behind the scenes, that's boring uncool nerd stuff.

msh  5 years ago

And then they will choose the same block list and sites will have the same problem.

  • coldtea  5 years ago

    All? I doubt it. Not to mention they could offer control to override whatever you like.

    • nearbuy  5 years ago

      > they could offer control to override

      Chrome lets you override and proceed to the site. The problem for the small business is that a large fraction of their customers see the scary red warning page.