Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.

Re:Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. by kristiandupont on Monday November 21, 2011 @03:31PM (#3262680)

Google scans for malicious sites as well. The difference is of course, that on FB people share links whereas Google can just decide not to include a link in the results and the user will never know.

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Re:Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. by cft on Monday November 21, 2011 @03:37PM (#3262698)

If they had a limited objective of stopping malicious sites like Google does, they could reject the malicious domains at the moment they are attempted to be posted, instead of scaring users from leaving facebook.com each time they try to navigate away.

I happen to run a well known service, and we encountered the malicious links problem. It has never even crossed our mind to display those pop-ups, instead we stop malicious links from being posted after a domain is reported or detected otherwise.

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Re:Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. by bad_user on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @06:22AM (#3265053)

Google has been criticized about banning less websites than they should - their preference is clearly towards false negatives, whereas Facebook's is clearly towards false positives.

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