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Consider disabling lookalike url navigation observer #3942
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Support's two cents: |
User's two cents: It's all fine and dandy until it's your own small business website that Chrome/Brave decides to send potential visitors away to a much bigger competitor. If this really is a security feature, will there be some kind of whitelisting possible? Best regards |
@Brave-Matt Well, if Brave tries to lures users willing to visit weeblr.com, a perfectly fine, secure and honest website, into thinking it's a bad site and strongly suggests to visit weebly.com instead, isn't Brave itself doing phishing now? The problem here is that the selection of the "offending" site is not based on security. It's not based on whether the site is a phishing target. It's not based on anything but a simply similitude between the 2 names. And that's not enough. There's not even a place where we can go and ask to be removed from that list. Of course, we're not big enough to sue but I guess at some point someone will. I guess the people from vive.com won't like seeing their visitors suggested to go to live.com. But they're a big company so I guess they'll find a way. It's not even based on trademark as our trademark actually pre-dates that of weebly in our trademark class. |
Looks well intentioned but it doesn't work even with a simple use case where a user going to vive.com is then directed to go to live.com. |
Closing. This is fixed with brave/brave-core#2382. In process to be uplifted to 64.x. |
Chromium enabled this feature by default: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/01/30/2020218/google-chrome-to-get-warnings-for-lookalike-urls
Can be annoying to users: https://community.brave.com/t/did-you-mean-to-go-to-all-of-a-sudden-displaying/50950/6
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