By the way, looks like google is flagging all posts linked to aim.org.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=site:freerepublic.com+aim.org
We’re not going to pull these. Google can KMA.
Hey, I’ll brave malware alerts for Trump. Heh heh heh...
One has to be pondering Google right now anyway when it come to Conservative sites.
If we’re talking trust issues, I’m a lot more confident of Free Republic’s leadership that I am Google’s.
Thanks Jim.
They can KAOAs...
Thanks much for the update, Jim. Google can also KMA and I’m sure many FReepers feel the same.
I'll guess that it's not AIM, but perhaps an advertising aggregator that AIM uses.
There have been recent cases where malware has been sneaked into an advertising aggregator, and all the sites using it turned into a vector for malware.
The sites are actually innocent, and the advertising aggregator is only guilty in now vetting the sneaky advertiser more carefully.
However, I'll throw in a recommendation for the AdBlock extension. It's available on both Chrome and Firefox. You won't see ads from the aggregators at all -- malicious, benign, or just annoying.
The warning page also comes up on FR pages that don't have any links to aim.org, or really any interesting content at all. (I reviewed the page source)
Firefox uses site ratings from stopbadware.org, and they apparently rely on Google data which may be site wide, not specific to a particular URL.
I think organizations that allege some other site is hosting malware should be ready to pony up some evidence - otherwise what they are doing is a unethical.
Guess I better bookmark aim and have it as a main source on my toolbar, too.
This is just wacky. Impugning an entire blog because it has some links to malware sites or in some cases links to sites that link to malware sites. Liberal shenanigans?