Option of a button to report a malicious website / fake news site
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guilherm456 last edited by
In the current years we live with constant threats from websites containing viruses / malware and sites containing fake news, so it would be interesting for the Opera team to add a button on the Opera menu to report a site. And even partner with Google to submit the reported sites for Google analysis and add to the Safe Browsing blacklist
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A Former User last edited by
Google is too nosy. I would not want any Google app installed in Opera.
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leocg Moderator last edited by
@guilherm456 Opera already has some partnership to protect the users against malicious sites but there is no way to directly report them.
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jbrandon last edited by@guilherm456 For articles in the newsfeed, you can report the individual content. If we notice a pattern from certain sources while moderating flags, we will likely ban the source.
For going to the website, I agree that would be an interesting tag to have in the URL bar if the site is considered unreliable or fake. Would be an interesting extension to make!
Jaron E. Brandon
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guilherm456 last edited by
@jbrandon said in Option of a button to report a malicious website / fake news site:
@guilherm456 For articles in the newsfeed, you can report the individual content. If we notice a pattern from certain sources while moderating flags, we will likely ban the source.
For going to the website, I agree that would be an interesting tag to have in the URL bar if the site is considered unreliable or fake. Would be an interesting extension to make!
@leocg said in Option of a button to report a malicious website / fake news site:
@guilherm456 Opera already has some partnership to protect the users against malicious sites but there is no way to directly report them.
Yes, I know that it is possible to report individually (I for example have reported many links that I considered malicious using the Netcraft website as you suggest), but I think it would be much easier to have an option to report those sites directly through the Opera menu, as it happens on Microsoft Edge
