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IainB:
This is not about a favourite FF add-on, but about a SCAM/PHISHING WARNING re the sourceforge optimizeGoogle add-on.
The project was apparently discontinued per post dated 2012-02-13:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/optimizegoogle/
===NOTICE===
After releasing a few updates, but far less than we wanted, we’ve made the decision to stop the OptimizeGoogle Project.
The reasons for the decision were that there were not enough people on the team to keep it going. Google is changing things every day and it has become more and more frustrating to look at all the functions go broke piece by piece.
The code will remain GPL, perhaps another person or team is interested in picking this up.
For now, thank you for all your patience, feedback and support.
Description:
OptimizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhances Google search results and other pages by adding extra information and removing unwanted information. Created to maintain and improve CustomizeGoogle which seems to have been abandoned.
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The optimizegoogle add-on links to seem to have been hijacked by a scam/phishing site.
Clicking on optimizegoogle.com will take you to a scam that detects your IP address location and delivers a page that masquerades as a Google YouTube lookalike page, or it asks you to join in a 30-second survey or gives the "Congratulations! You have just won an iPod" sort of page.
Under some circumstances, Ghostery intercepts the link and reports that:
Ghostery prevented a redirect from
52664.quikker.com to ck.ads.affinity.com,
which is part of Affinity.
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Recommendation: If you have the sourceforge optimizeGoogle add-on, then disable it and delete it.
Tuxman:
A cursor indicator. Hovering over hyperlinks will show a different cursor based on the targets file extension.-Cursor Indicator On Link Hover - with large icons
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(see attachment in previous post)-Curt (December 19, 2012, 03:09 PM)
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So?
Enable the status bar and watch the hover text. Done.
TaoPhoenix:
So on the dept of Most Useful stuff, I might have to think about AdMuncher and Ghostery again. I know, Ghostery prob. sells its list elsewhere for its own uses, but if it at least locally blocks the random crap, then that's fine by me. "Which ad companies wanted to track me" isn't very important to me, even by my medium privacy standards.
f0dder:
Ghostery again. I know, Ghostery prob. sells its list elsewhere for its own uses.-TaoPhoenix (December 22, 2012, 01:35 PM)
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Perhaps - somebody should dig into that. OTOH, it has that "GhostRank" thing that's disabled by default, and which one should probably not enable. And unless it either doesn't blocks the sites it says it claims it's blocking or sells the visitor-data of blocked sites to some central list of people, well, it's certainly better than NO protection.
MilesAhead:
A cursor indicator. Hovering over hyperlinks will show a different cursor based on the targets file extension.-Cursor Indicator On Link Hover - with large icons
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(see attachment in previous post)-Curt (December 19, 2012, 03:09 PM)
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So?
Enable the status bar and watch the hover text. Done.
-Tuxman (December 22, 2012, 09:13 AM)
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I have to admit. I thought it was a cool idea. Until I tried it and saw the icons. Would be a lot cooler if the icons looked cool. But it was easier for me to read the status bar text than to squint and see that little zipper that meant it was a zip file. :)
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