Re:Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.
by ajross on Monday November 21, 2011 @07:08PM
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That's actually exactly Google's solution: they give you a set of reports and an indication of when the malware or malicious link was last detected on the site.
But I don't think that's the issue here. That facebook warning does not, as far as I know, get generated from a positive malware/spam/badness metric. It's just thrown up as a default action when someone links to an unblessed site on the web. That's what the poster doesn't like: it goes against the whole idea of hyperlinking.
Re:Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it.
by benregenspan on Monday November 21, 2011 @07:28PM
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But as lbrandy mentioned, this is in one rare case and appears to be the result of a bug. If this happened when most links were clicked leaving Facebook, you can rest assured that all publishers would be up in arms.
If a site appears to contain malicious content at time X but not at time Y than I would PREFER to be notified that it is a dubious site until the site has earned back trust in some way. Continuing to warn users about a site that historically contained badness seems to me to be a FEATURE.