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Kam
Dec 16, 2020Silver Contributor
Tab title should be "Privacy risk" instead of "Privacy error" on unsafe websites
For example, go to chromium.com and test it out: the actual google site is chromium.org, so don't be on the wrong track... I think "Privacy risk" is better, and instead of an "x" on top of the fo...
HotCakeX
Dec 17, 2020MVP
Good.
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Dec 18, 2020Wait what??? Chromimum.com redirects to solomo something.com.
Strange, edge should be able to tell if a url is redirecting somewhere esle.
Strange, edge should be able to tell if a url is redirecting somewhere esle.
- KamDec 18, 2020Silver ContributorDeleted IDK, that happens to me sometimes. Weird. One day it shows "Privacy error" and the other it redirects to solomoxxxx.com.
- HotCakeXDec 18, 2020MVP
Kam wrote:
DeletedIDK, that happens to me sometimes. Weird. One day it shows "Privacy error" and the other it redirects to solomoxxxx.com.anyone can own any available domain, then redirect it to other domains.
Chromium's (the browser) website is https://www.chromium.org/
Solomo owns www.chromium.com , an entirely different domain, no privacy risk or anything.
if Google was worried, they could do what Microsoft does and buy similar domains, but they didn't.
Edge or other browsers can't show random security/privacy errors on people's websites just because their domain is similar to other domains. that's awful.
- HotCakeXDec 18, 2020MVP
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Wait what??? Chromimum.com redirects to solomo something.com.
Strange, edge should be able to tell if a url is redirecting somewhere esle.Nope, when I go to "http://chromimum.com/", the browser throws "ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED" Errors.
but the browser can't intervene if the web server is designed by the site developer to use a 301 redirect.