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Sorry for off topic, but what is rawstory? It's on some tracking blocklist and that url is funny. Although it looks just like any other news site.
It's a left-wing news outlet. I don't think there's anything malicious there in terms of security.
These blocklists are wack sometimes, I need to keep adding exceptions...
Usually when I get a warning of that sort, I manually retype the url for safety’s sake, or double-check the site on Wikipedia or Whois it. There may be some characters that look identical to others. Article on it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/04/30/fact-check-hackers-use-similar-looking-characters-phishing-schemes/4891437001/
Good point. Btw this is Rethink DNS on my phone with a ton of active blocklists, which are quite often overzealous... So then I visit the url in Tor Browser instead.
Ehh, I get ~3 pages of 3rd party crap, most of which is on block lists. Red = explicitly blocked, 3rd party scripts and XHR blocked by default (I do also block google.com, gstatic.com and facebook.com whenever they're a 3rd party, but every other red domain is considered dodgy by default).
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uMatrix FTW
Edit: Also I should say that if I were to enable things more stuff would almost certainly load up.
That's a fact of any news site these days.
Btw uBlock on FF + Rethink DNS ftw
Left-leaning, mostly accurate, sensation stories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_Story
Some block lists will include newly registered or rarely visited domains.
The article quotes their source as https://www.seroundtable.com/twitter-google-search-drop-35648.html, which are just showing the decrease in search results each day on Google for
site:twitter.com.