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Firefox add-on - MAFIAAFire now adds "PirateBay Danciing" - quick review

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IainB:
Interestingly, I noticed today that my trusty MBAM (Malwarebytes Anti-Malware) was blocking access to MAFIAAFire.com.

So I did a search, yet could find nothing "wrong" with that website, and these refernce points gave no indication of any issues with the website:

* http://whois.domaintools.com/mafiaafire.com
* https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=mafiaafire.com
Now, I don't know how long the website  has been blocked by MBAM, but to me this looks suspiciously like stealthy censorship, so I made the IP address 37.46.125.152 an exception in MBAM, and that fixed it.
I also found that http://www.ilovemafiaafire.net/ was not responding, and in a search could find nothing useful about it.
EDIT 2014-07-16 1230hrs:
One of our old domains was stolen (ilovemafiaafire.net) by our last scummy webhost and they just have an ads page on that domain, this release takes out any references to that domain      
From <http://mafiaafire.eu/MAFIAA-forum/showthread.php?tid=493>

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Renegade:
Now, I don't know how long the website  has been blocked by MBAM, but to me this looks suspiciously like stealthy censorship
-IainB (July 14, 2014, 08:48 AM)
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I wouldn't be surprised. I've noticed Chrome giving me errors/warnings when I go to some sites. It doesn't happen very often, but... Those sites aren't exactly mainstream, and I can see why someone would want to censor them.

TaoPhoenix:
Now, I don't know how long the website  has been blocked by MBAM, but to me this looks suspiciously like stealthy censorship
-IainB (July 14, 2014, 08:48 AM)
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I wouldn't be surprised. I've noticed Chrome giving me errors/warnings when I go to some sites. It doesn't happen very often, but... Those sites aren't exactly mainstream, and I can see why someone would want to censor them.
-Renegade (July 14, 2014, 08:57 AM)
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To me this spills over into a bigger issue, merging "copyright concerns" with "security warnings". I expect a legit "security warning" to be ... about security.

But when the IP gang pressures a browser to report a site as "unsafe" really bugs me, because it tries to play the gen public's honest attempt to be safe, for a few loose ends.

My best example is Primewire.ag showing up in Firefox/related's lists as "an attack site".

Now I'll listen to one of my betters here, but it generally seems like cheap tactics.

IainB:
Just posted this EDIT to my above comment.
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EDIT 2014-07-16 1230hrs:
One of our old domains was stolen (ilovemafiaafire.net) by our last scummy webhost and they just have an ads page on that domain, this release takes out any references to that domain      
From <http://mafiaafire.eu/MAFIAA-forum/showthread.php?tid=493>

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-IainB (July 14, 2014, 08:48 AM)
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IainB:
Now, I don't know how long the website  has been blocked by MBAM, but to me this looks suspiciously like stealthy censorship
-IainB (July 14, 2014, 08:48 AM)
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I wouldn't be surprised. I've noticed Chrome giving me errors/warnings when I go to some sites. It doesn't happen very often, but... Those sites aren't exactly mainstream, and I can see why someone would want to censor them.
-Renegade (July 14, 2014, 08:57 AM)
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To me this spills over into a bigger issue, merging "copyright concerns" with "security warnings". I expect a legit "security warning" to be ... about security.
But when the IP gang pressures a browser to report a site as "unsafe" really bugs me, because it tries to play the gen public's honest attempt to be safe, for a few loose ends.
My best example is Primewire.ag showing up in Firefox/related's lists as "an attack site".
Now I'll listen to one of my betters here, but it generally seems like cheap tactics.
-TaoPhoenix (July 14, 2014, 09:22 AM)
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That's interesting. The other day I installed Google Canary (Chrome), on my new laptop - having not used Google Chrome for quite a while since migrating to the new laptop. (I had previously used the developer channel release of Google Chrome on my old laptop.)
I clicked on a URL for a website - I don't recall exactly, but I think it might have been one that was offering a Chrome add-on not available from the official Chrome store, or something - and a WARNING!! screen popped up asking "was I sure I wanted to go there?" or something, and suggesting I bitlify the URL (I could not and do not understand why I would want to do that, or what use it would be) - and there was a button I could press to do that. It also had a warning to the effect "Proceed at your own risk". Now, I was going there anyway, proceeding under my own risk as it were, when this stupid popup had intercepted me - so this was none of their bloody business and apparently simply a stupid scare tactic to discourage me away from that URL.
The trouble is, when it seems as though someone doesn't want me to see/know something, I become suspicious and curious to know what it is that they are trying to hide, as, from experience, people hiding things can often mean that there is something unethical going on.
I shall try and repeat this case and copy details to here or to some more appropriate thread in the forum.
Maybe we should start a discussion thread reporting cases of discovered "Internet Censorship" or something (or is there a suitable discussion thread  already).

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