Community

    • Login
    • Search
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Groups
    • Search

    WHEN GOOGLE IS POSSESSED BY PROFIT

    Announcements
    6
    9
    1251
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • donho
      donho last edited by donho

      Several Notepad++ users have reported fake Notepad++ website via Google Ads when they search Download Notepad++:

      88af9a27-7eab-49df-b20a-730314b68c22-image.png

      Obviously the fake website www.noetepad.com in question has been taken down. However, it’s possible that there are still other fake sites provided by Google AD.

      Please help us to test it from your side, in order to make sure there’s no more fake Notepad++ website when people googling download Notepad++.

      Thank you.

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 5
      • zeta orionis
        zeta orionis last edited by

        my mom once fell for that

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
        • Referenced by  donho donho 
        • Alan Kilborn
          Alan Kilborn last edited by

          @donho

          If I google Download Notepad++ I don’t see any fake website links in the first page of results.

          Lycan Thrope 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 3
          • Lycan Thrope
            Lycan Thrope @Alan Kilborn last edited by Lycan Thrope

            @Alan-Kilborn ,
            Yeah, I just tried it and it gave me normal non-ad results, all legit, but of course, this could be because it’s a US based server? Maybe the different overseas servers are getting hit locally without propagation because it gets caught and filtered here? Or maybe, Mozilla’s Firefox with adblock prevents it. When I use Firefox with adblock AND DuckDuckGo, I guess I never see anything, but then again, I bail out if something tries opening IE/Edge instead. :)

            Heck, just using this forum on Firefox shows 2 blocked ads. :)

            donho 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
            • guy038
              guy038 last edited by guy038

              Hi, All,

              From France, with Microsoft Edge version 108.0.1462.76 (Official 64 bits version) :

              • Typing the sentence télécharger Notepad++ gives this page :

              5c33d065-6cbc-43a5-ad67-ecee1ff5243d-image.png

              where the official site is the 2nd result

              • Typing the sentence download Notepad++ gives this page :

              dcb0f30c-7c95-49ee-b45c-ba775f7d2dd6-image.png

              Where the official site is the 1st result !

              Best Regards,

              guy038

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 3
              • donho
                donho @Lycan Thrope last edited by

                @Lycan-Thrope said in WHEN GOOGLE IS POSSESSED BY PROFIT:

                Heck, just using this forum on Firefox shows 2 blocked ads. :)

                It shouldn’t. I don’t have adblock installed, and I don’t see any AD in this forum.

                Lycan Thrope 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                • Lycan Thrope
                  Lycan Thrope @donho last edited by

                  @donho ,

                  Just so you don’t think I’m imagining it <g>, here’s a screenshot I took on this page before responding to you.

                  AdBlockNPPForums.PNG

                  If you’ll notice up in the right hand part of the window, is a stop sign behind the popup…that shows the number 2, that’s how I know something is being blocked, regardless of what it is, and the popup confirms it’s blocking something here on this site. Unfortunately, I don’t have dark mode set on the browser yet.

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • DomOBU
                    DomOBU last edited by

                    Perhaps an explanation:

                    NP++ Capture d’écran 2023-01-14 093012.png

                    Lycan Thrope 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                    • Lycan Thrope
                      Lycan Thrope @DomOBU last edited by

                      @DomOBU ,
                      I can’t read French, but that’s also why I see things in French in the code, but I suspect you’re showing him what my Ad-Blocker is finding worth blocking. I mean, it could even just be the Google Tracking, that is being blocked for all I know. I only know that I like Ad-Block doing it’s job, period. :)

                      When a site insists I shutdown the Ad-Block, I close the site, instead. :)

                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • First post
                        Last post
                      Copyright © 2014 NodeBB Forums | Contributors