Similar Website Names

It's tricky how many websites sound the same but can be spelled differently, for example https://codeium.com vs https://codium.com . Many might end up typing the one without the e going to the wrong weird website of https://codium.com

I recently noticed my Google Chrome do something cool :)

Now Google Chrome shows warning for me trying to go to https://codium.com by mistake or even intentionally I guess. I don’t know if it learned from my browsing history about https://codeium.com and how I go to it often than https://codium.com which I have gone to too by mistake the first time alone, or they automatically ranked the pages πŸ“ƒπŸ“„πŸ—’οΈπŸ“‘ and understood something is fishy or probably fishy about https://codium.com, or someone reported it - maybe there’s a way to report bad websites, like, using the report links on https://safebrowsing.google.com/ at the bottom of their web page

Direct Links πŸ”— -

https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/

There are also many ideas πŸ’‘ online on how to report to different entities on the Internet πŸ›œ to help prevent bad websites from causing. For example, one such one is this - https://www.wikihow.com/Report-a-Website

It talks about how to report to Microsoft using https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/support/report-unsafe-site-guest and more - like Government

Different entities could be - Big Internet πŸ›œ companies like Google (Google Chrome Browser, Google Cloud, Google DNS etc), Microsoft (Azure Cloud, Microsoft Edge Browser etc), Amazon (AWS Cloud etc), Mozilla (Firefox Browser), Cloudflare (Cloudflare DNS, Cloudflare CDN etc)

Another nice example with some details is this one - https://www.redpoints.com/blog/how-to-report-a-site-on-google/

It's important to be aware of this issue of problematic websites, phishing websites, fake websites etc, and beware and be careful :)

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Karuppiah Natarajan

I like learning new stuff - anything, including technology. I love tinkering with new tools, systems and services, especially open source projects