Omnibox suggests spam site |
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Issue descriptionI'm assuming maybe this is a backend issue but I don't know the right place to report it if so. Maybe owners can help. If I start type "barcl" into the omnibox in a clean profile (no omnibox history), the top suggestion from Chrome is "barclayus.com". This is a spam site, and there doesn't seem to be any way from within Chrome to report it as such. The expected (non-spam) site would be "barclaysus.com", and it's of course super easy to overlook the difference and navigate to Chrome's spammy suggestion instead.
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Jan 18
(4 days ago)
I think I see what happened. It only got into my suggestions for "barcl" once I accidentally clicked the bad suggestion one time. From a totally clean profile (apparently there was history I wasn't familiar with), the bad suggestion only appears once you type "barclayu". While of course this is understandably not going to match "barclaysus.com", it still definitely does recommend "barclayus.com/activate" which looks a lot like a valid card activation URL but is very much just spam. Oddly I don't see it on desktop, but on Android for "barclayu" the chrome://omnibox result has: - Provider: Search - Type: navsuggest - Relevance: 602 - Contents: barclayus.com/activate
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Jan 18
(4 days ago)
Thanks. So Search provider suggestions come from google.com (or your default search provider). I've reported the bad result internally. |
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Comment 1 by k...@chromium.org
, Jan 18 (4 days ago)