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Status: Untriaged
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OS: Android
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Spike in spam Chrome M70

Project Member Reported by ecabrera@chromium.org, Oct 24

Issue description

Chrome Version: M70 & M69
OS: Android 7 & 8

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) Open Chrome on Android
(2) Some sites showing ads

What is the expected result?
Show sites

What happens instead?
Too many ads even porn ones

Spike
https://screenshot.googleplex.com/Rkpva29nqGV (M70 only)
https://screenshot.googleplex.com/gQMnFVzyKmA (including all versions)


Examples
https://listnr.corp.google.com/report/85742311633
https://listnr.corp.google.com/report/85742293789
https://listnr.corp.google.com/report/85742258492
https://listnr.corp.google.com/report/85742052348
 
Components: UI>Browser>AdFilter Services>Safebrowsing
Labels: android-fe-triaged
Be wary of clicking on those links...they're...umm...explicit.

Is this something we could be detecting better?  Do we know if there are malicious apps on the phone that are triggering spammy ad landing pages?

Adding the AdFilter, Safebrowsing components in case there is something we could be doing more systematically to prevent this kind of abuse.  If these are simply malicious intents being broadcast, I think it would make it challenging.  If we could get access to one of these devices, then we might be able to figure out where these are coming from to help come up with a strategy to block them.

Again...be wary of those example links.
Cc: jud@google.com
Thanks Ted. +jud FYI. These are sites that probably fail our abusive experience standards.
Cc: apaseltiner@google.com
Thanks Charlie. We'll eval these sites for abusive violations and see what they come back with.
Labels: SafeBrowsing-Triaged
Components: -Services>Safebrowsing
Sounds like this falls outside of the malware/phishing/SE policies, so removing Safe Browsing.

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