Ability to report search result as malicious

Pat

Occasionally I stumble upon a malicious search result. An example is the third result of this search:

It's one of those sites that redirects you several times until you land on a, "You've been selected as a winner!" sorts of scams.

It would be nice if there was a built in way to help others by reporting malicious sites

Vlad

Pat Any idea how would we do this inside the crystal orb popup? (it is a bit cramped already) Also what is the expectation what we would with these sites to prevent potential abuse? Is the "Block" feature not enough?

Too many questions but things are never simple.

Pat

Vlad An idea I had - please forgive my poor design skills

Notice small report link beneath website ranking adjustment:

This would change the crystal ball (I'm not so sure if the large title bar makes sense here):

I suppose different reasons could be:

Phishing
Malware
Scam
Illegal content

The heuristic to actually hide results after reports is out of my wheelhouse, but I might suggest looking at uBlock's ban list in the meantime as it originally caught the malicious link in the OP.

Another idea is not hiding results but displaying a warning after some threshold.

handsel

@Vlad, maybe don't let users to "mark as malicious" (easy to abuse) but try to integrate lists like https://www.cert.pl/en/posts/2020/03/malicious_domains/ ?

Vlad

Even if we had this mechanism, malicious sites would require manual verification and then it can be subject to subjective opinion. Plus a malicious domain can expire, a small business may buy it for legitimate needs and it would stay flagged. It just seems to be messy.

handsel

Vlad, no, you could just use the list I gave you. It's official Polish malicious domain list. It's used by Orange, NextDNS etc.
Really, it's what it's for - to use 😉

Vlad

handsel We already use a similar list and any malicious sites are downranked and marked in results. Have you found sites that are in this list that are not marked on kagi?