Re:PSA: Always use a separate domain for user content
by thehyperflux on Friday October 10, 2025 @09:57AM
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Google services simply behaved the way I would expect them to here. Who knows... they may even have saved some users from coming to harm.
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Re:PSA: Always use a separate domain for user content
by ericselin on Friday October 10, 2025 @10:01AM
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That is a great point. When I see these sites I'm always seeing a dozen red flags, and maybe the biggest one is that it's showing a "NatWest" banking site or something and is hosted on "portal-abc.statichost.eu". But the whole point is of course saving users from coming to harm, and if it did - great!
Re:PSA: Always use a separate domain for user content
by liquid_thyme on Friday October 10, 2025 @05:26PM
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Many phishing attacks originate from Google's owns domains. Gmail users phishing others, scammy youtube videos, scammy comments with links to scams, scammy ads to fake banking pages, etc, etc. But Google would never be hypocritical, never!!