Part of my job is to look at possibly naughty and dangerous sites. Usually Chrome gives me an ‘are you sure?’ warning before I look at a hacked site, and I understand why. But see, my job involves me going to known hacked sites, seeing what’s going on, reverse engineering, and fixing. So yes, Chrome, I need that ‘I’m sure’ option.
Lately Chrome hasn’t been giving me an option. It’s been saying no.
So I went to the documentation, Can’t download files on Chrome, to find out how to turn it off and I was annoyed.
If you don’t want Chrome to show you download warnings, you can turn off your phishing and malware protection setting. Turning off these warnings will also turn off other malware and phishing alerts:
I want phishing protection!
Actually what I want is Chrome to say “This download may harm your computer. Don’t download it if you have auto-expand or auto-run on for downloaded files. Are you sure you want to download this?” and default to NO.
And no, I’ve not figured out how to do this yet.
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4 responses to “Rant: Chrome is the New Nanny Browser”
And it’s been giving the malware warnings for things like legit theme and plugins that are protected downloads. :/ Their reasoning is “We cant tell what’s in the file”.
That’s been fun in support.
@Andrea_R: Imagine how fun plugin reviews have been. 😡
When you do figure out how to turn this off, please share that knowledge!
@Bet Hannon: Huh. All week long any kind of file download (plugins, themes, etc.) has been triggering the warnings, but just now, I downloaded the updated version of CCleaner from filehippo.com — where Chrome might rightly want to protect a user who got confused with all the shiny buttons there– and no warning. I haven’t changed any settings. Not sure what to make of that.