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On Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:48:19 -0500, Paul
wrote: Boris wrote: Win7, 64-bit This is happening in both Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers, when I use Google as a search engine, and only when I Google "lowes" in the URL box, and then select the first result, "Lowes Official Site". It doesn't happen with any other search, for instance Best Buy or Home Depot. This is what I see. Lowes.com - Official Website Ad www.lowes.com/? ?+91 99112 44209 Firefox 17 ESR, very hardened: FREE SHIPPING ON QUALIFYING ORDERS $49 OR MORE Lowe's Home Improvement Logo Link to Lowe's Home Improvement Home Page Welcome to Lowe's Find a Store mylowes Sign in LOT OF PICTURES AND OFFERS Need Help? Call 1-800-445-6937 Products & Sales Call 1-877-GO-LOWES ---------------------------------------------- Looks OK to me. A DNS hijack maybe ? []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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On 2/8/2017 5:36 AM, Shadow wrote:
On Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:48:19 -0500, Paul wrote: Boris wrote: Win7, 64-bit This is happening in both Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers, when I use Google as a search engine, and only when I Google "lowes" in the URL box, and then select the first result, "Lowes Official Site". It doesn't happen with any other search, for instance Best Buy or Home Depot. This is what I see. Lowes.com - Official Website Ad www.lowes.com/? ?+91 99112 44209 Firefox 17 ESR, very hardened: FREE SHIPPING ON QUALIFYING ORDERS $49 OR MORE Lowe's Home Improvement Logo Link to Lowe's Home Improvement Home Page Welcome to Lowe's Find a Store mylowes Sign in LOT OF PICTURES AND OFFERS Need Help? Call 1-800-445-6937 Products & Sales Call 1-877-GO-LOWES ---------------------------------------------- Looks OK to me. A DNS hijack maybe ? []'s NO!! It was a paid advertisement that Google took down after I complained in a feedback to Google. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Paraphrasing Mark Twain, who was quoting someone else: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and alternative truths. |
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On 02/07/2017 09:46 PM, Boris wrote:
[snip] After installing AVG Free,I tried Firefox again, and this time, a Google search didn't bring up "Lowe's - Official Site", it brought up "Lowe's Home Improvement: Appliances, Tools, Hardware, Paint ...", as the first link. When I hovered over this link, the status bar showed "www.lowes.com, and nota google redirect. Hmmm...something has changed for the better. I did a Google search for "lowes". Hovering over the first link shows "https://www.lowes.com" on the status line. "Inspect object" shows a complicated HREF that calls a Google page with an unexplained "onmousedown". Once I've looked at that, hovering now shows the complicated URL. [snip] -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "When a clear head leads the way, a warm heart can safely follow." -- Marilyn Vos Savant |
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On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 07:35:28 -0800, "David E. Ross"
wrote: On 2/8/2017 5:36 AM, Shadow wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:48:19 -0500, Paul wrote: Boris wrote: Win7, 64-bit This is happening in both Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers, when I use Google as a search engine, and only when I Google "lowes" in the URL box, and then select the first result, "Lowes Official Site". It doesn't happen with any other search, for instance Best Buy or Home Depot. This is what I see. Lowes.com - Official Website Ad www.lowes.com/? ?+91 99112 44209 Firefox 17 ESR, very hardened: FREE SHIPPING ON QUALIFYING ORDERS $49 OR MORE ............ LOT OF PICTURES AND OFFERS ............. ---------------------------------------------- Looks OK to me. A DNS hijack maybe ? []'s NO!! It was a paid advertisement that Google took down after I complained in a feedback to Google. Ah, OK, sorry, answered to the first post then went off somewhere and didn't read the follow-ups. Bad that, Google should not be serving malware, but it's been doing it for a while. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 07:35:28 -0800, David E. Ross wrote:
On 2/8/2017 5:36 AM, Shadow wrote: [quoted text muted] Looks OK to me. A DNS hijack maybe ? []'s NO!! It was a paid advertisement that Google took down after I complained in a feedback to Google. Can we all just pause in awe for a moment? Google actually responded to user feedback on a specific issue? Wow. I'm not being sarcastic or anything, but I thought that never happened. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
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On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 12:41:41 -0600, Mark Lloyd wrote:
I did a Google search for "lowes". Hovering over the first link shows "https://www.lowes.com" on the status line. "Inspect object" shows a complicated HREF that calls a Google page with an unexplained "onmousedown". Once I've looked at that, hovering now shows the complicated URL. [snip] Startpage.com is my search engine for exactly that reason. It uses Google's search engine, but hover over a link in the results and you get the actual link. No advertising results either. There's a widget to install it as a search engine in Firefox, which is what I used. I'd be surprised if there weren't widgets for other popular browsers. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
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Stan Brown wrote:
Mark Lloyd wrote: I did a Google search for "lowes". Hovering over the first link shows "https://www.lowes.com" on the status line. "Inspect object" shows a complicated HREF that calls a Google page with an unexplained "onmousedown". Once I've looked at that, hovering now shows the complicated URL. Startpage.com is my search engine for exactly that reason. It uses Google's search engine, but hover over a link in the results and you get the actual link. No advertising results either. ixquick's Startpage gets its results from Google; i.e., it submits your search criteria to Google and then displays them to you but without the tracking URL schema. This also means, however, that companies buying sponsored ads as hits in Google's search engine will also be at the top of ixquick's results. So, in a way, you still get the sponsored hits first in the results list. Unlike Google, ixquick does not use tracking in the links in the results that it shows. It has deobfuscated the Google URLs to present only the target site that Google buries in the parameters of its tracking URLs. Another nice feature of ixquick is the use of their proxy. This means the target site does not see that you came from Google when you visit them. When using the proxy, the site doesn't get to see your IP address. That's the point of using proxies for anonymity. Rather than use cookies to remember your settings, they will let you generate a URL to use their search engine with arguments that represent your settings. You can save that special URL as a bookmark, shortcut, or search engine setting (in your web browser or in the Windows registry to use in the address bar of IE, Windows Explorer, or the address bar in the Windows taskbar). That way, you can reuse the settings that you like without having to save them into a cookie that you have to exclude from any cleanup tool. Instead you save the settings for using their site into the URL that you can save and reuse. Because ixquick's StartPage uses Google's search engine, I get more results and better focused results than when using DuckDuckGo. Something you will lose when not using Google's search engine. For example, you can specify operators in the search to alter for what you search. One that I use often is "define:phrase". I have "g" setup as a shortcut to Google's search and "sp" for ixquick's Startpage. Enter "g define:inferno" and the first result is a dictionary definition. Enter "sp define:inferno" and you get the same results as if you entered "sp inferno". When doing a search at Google, they will add images in their web search results for YouTube so you can see a pic of the video before going there. Search Google on "streets of fire" and then do it at Startpage. Google will also present a right-side pane of the Youtube featured video. Startpage just shows a simple text list of results. Google will let you filter the results by a time range: any time, past hour (*), past 24 hours, past week, past month, past year, and custom range (*). The ones asterisked are not available at Startpage. There are few sites (well, none so far) that I really care about Google collecting logistics on what I searched on and on what I clicked. While I still use StartPage (and DuckDuckGo) on occasion, most of the time I use Google or Bing. If I don't trust Google and Microsoft to non-personally record my searches and selections, why would I trust anyone else? Yeah, ixquick and DuckDuckGo make their claims but I've yet seen anyone attempt to test them. They are still recording on what you search and obviously they know your IP address, too. They need the logistics to improve their service, too. They are promising to protect your privacy from the pages you visit (even more so if you use ixquick's proxy), like from where you came (their search) when you visit a site, and they do well at that. They also promise not to collect any personally identifiable logistics about you (IP address, search criteria) but then so does Google but they collect MORE information. |
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