How to configure AdBlock in Chrome - google-chrome

I have Adblock and Adblock Plus extensions in Chrome browser. I spend a lot of time doing intentional shopping and get blocked from things I don't want to be blocked from. For example if I search google for a "hotspot", I want to research various devices available. But when I click on one (sponsored link at the top of the search results), I get an error page that says
This site can’t provide a secure connection
ad.doubleclick.net sent an invalid response.
Try running Windows Network Diagnostics.
ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR
I don't mind these "ads". They are useful. Is there a way to configure AdBlocker to allow them?

My IT department admitted this is a filtering policy. Quite unfortunate since looking at ads for new technology IS A HUGE PART OF MY JOB

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How is Charter Spectrum doing this in my browser?

I know this is not a programming question and it could be open ended. However, I feel like I can get this most help here.
Is the image below cross-site scripting or a result of net-neutrality? If so, what can do to get them out of my browser?
So far I have noticed this on my computer, my wife's computer which has better security on it, and it is happening to other people I know.
It happens randomly in my google chrome browser. I have not seen it in FF or Edge but I don't use those much. It will also occur on different websites. The copyright is 2016 but it is happening now (2019). I would think this was an annoying ad but it has my name in it, and it occurs when I have to pay the bill. Also just another observation, it seems to happen on HTTP sites, not HTTPS but I could be wrong.
Any information to get Charter out would be helpful. Please don't say use TOR
It's probably DNS hijacking.
To mitigate, you could try:
Not using your ISP's DNS servers. Try OpenDNS or similar.
DNS over HTTPS
The HTTPS Everywhere browser extension, which might help reduce it
a VPN

My site flagged as unsafe by Smartscreen only in Microsoft Edge

My Magento 1.9 webshop is marked as unsafe (phishing which is not true) in Microsoft Edge, if switch to IE and run Smart Screen security check it says all safe.
And strangely only on one of my computers and therefore didn't bother much but also a customer complained about it today.
Anyone experienced this before and have a solution? Is there a way to check why a site is marked as unsafe by smartscreen?
Based on my searching results, Below information may helpful to you.
Q. If I am a website owner, how do I correct a warning on my legitimate site?
A. You can immediately submit a request for a correction. Windows Defender SmartScreen has a built-in, web-based feedback system in place to help customers and website owners report any potential false warnings as quickly as possible. In Windows Internet Explorer, from a red warning, click More information then Report that this site contains no threats. This will take you to a feedback page where you can indicate you are a site owner or representative. Follow the instructions and provide the information on this site to submit a site for review...
Reference:
Resolving “This website has been reported as unsafe” (Windows Defender SmartScreen)
Q.
If I am a website owner, what can I do to help minimize the chance of my website being flagged by Windows Defender SmartScreen?
A.
There are several things you can do that can help minimize the chance of your site being flagged as suspicious. Think of these as best practices or optimal website design ethics.
If you ask users for personal information, use HTTPS with a valid, unexpired server certificate issued by a trusted certification authority.
Make sure that your webpage doesn't expose any cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Protect your site by using anti-cross-site scripting functions such as those provided by the Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting library.
Use the fully-qualified domain name rather than an IP-literal address. (This means a URL should look like "microsoft.com" and not "207.46.19.30.")
Don't encode or tunnel your URLs unnecessarily. If you don't know what this means, you probably aren't doing it.
If you post external or third-party hosted content, make sure that the content is secure and from a known and trusted source.
Reference:
Windows Defender SmartScreen Frequently Asked Questions
In MS Edge browser there's an option to "report file as safe". After clicking it - select the "I'm a website owner" option and fill the false-positive form.

Chrome - multiple requests

Whenever I send a GET-request to my webapp using chrome, according to my apache access log two identical requests (not always, but most of the times, I can't reproduce it - it's not for the favicon) get send to the sever, although only one is shown in the chrome dev tools. I deactivated all extensions and it's still happening.
Is this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1872177 true and is it a chrome feature or should I dig deeper within my app to find the bug?
I think it's even worse than that. My experience here (developing with Google App Engine), is that Chrome is making all kinds of extra requests.
This is possibly due to the option that is in the Settings, checked by default:
Predict network actions to improve page load performance
Here is a really weird example: my website's page runs a notifications check every 15 seconds (done in javascript). Even after closing all tabs related to my website, I see requests coming from my IP, some random pages but also the notification check request. To me that means that Chrome has a page of my website running in the background and is even evaluating its javascript.
When I request a page, I pretty much always get another request for one of the links in that page. And it also requests resources of the extra pages (.css, .js, .png files). Lots of requests going on.
I have seen the same behavior with the development server that runs locally.
Happens also from another computer / network.
Doesn't happen with Firefox.
Also, see What to do with chrome sending extra requests?

Phishing Detected! warning in Chrome

I have encountered the "Phishing Detected" warning in Chrome browser on my dev site. Interestingly I don't encounter the same warning in Firefox or Safari even though, as far I can tell, they are using the same phishing database (although in Safari preferences it says "google safe browsing service is unavailable"). I also don't encounter the warning on the same page of the production sites.
It first popped up on a new account verification page I created which amongst other things asked users to confirm their PayPal account with the GetVerifiedStatus API. This requires only name and email.
I have also encountered the warning on a configuration page which asks for the PayPal email address which the user wishes to receive payments to.
Neither page requests a password or any other data that would be considered a secret.
As you might gather I have zeroed in on a potential false positive on the PayPal portion of the content as if perhaps I am phishing for PayPal information beyond the payers email address. There has been no malicious code injection or any such thing. Even when i've removed all content from the page the warning is still present.
I reported the first incorrect detection to Google, and intend to do the same for the second incident, however what I really want to clear up is:
What content can lead to this warning?
How can I avoid it in the future?
How can I get some info from the "authorities" on which urls are blocked? (Webmaster Tools is not showing warnings for the dev site)
How can I flush my local cache of "bad sites" in case I want to re-test?
Clearly having a massive red alert presented to a user on a production site would be disastrous, and there is a (perhaps deliberate) lack of information about how this safe browsing service actually works.
I have been developing a website for a banking software developer and ran into the Phishing warning as well. Unlike you I had no PayPal associations in any of my code and well not even any data collection besides a simple contact form. Here are some things I managed to figure out to resolve my false positive warnings.
1) The warnings in Chrome (red gradient background) is a detection method built into the Chrome browser itself and it does not require to check any blacklists to give the warning. In fact Google themselves claim that this is one of the methods that they discover new potentially harmful sites. When your site is actually on the blacklists you get another red warning screen with diagonal lines in the background. This explains why you only see the warning in Chrome.
2) What actually triggers this warning is obviously kept kind of hidden. I could not find anything to help me debug the content of my site. You have pretty much done this, so for anybody else in need of help, I had to isolate the parts of my site to see what was triggering the warnings. Due to the nature of the site I was working on it turned out to be the combination of words and phrases in the content itself. (e.g Banking Solutions, Online Banking, Mobile Banking). Alone they did not trigger anything but when loaded together chrome would do its thing. So I'm not sure what your triggers are or even what the list of possible triggers are. Sorry...
3) I found that simply quitting Chrome completely and restarting it resets the "cache" for whether it has perviously detected a page. I closed Chrome hundreds of times while getting to the bottom of my warnings.
Thats all I have and hope it helps.
Update: My staging area was accessed via an IP address. Once I moved the site to use a domain instead all the warnings stopped in chrome.
I experienced the same today while creating an SSL test report for my web server customers. What I had there was simply something like this:
"Compare the SSL results of our server to the results of a well-known bank and its Internet banking service". I just wanted to show that the banking site had grading B whereas ours had grading A-.
I had two images from SSL-Labs (one the results for my server and the other the results of the bank). No input fields, no links to any other site and definitely no wording about then name of the bank.
One h1, two h2 titles and two paragraphs plus two images.
I moved the HTML to the page and opened it in my Chrome browser. The web server log told me that a Google service had loaded the page after 20 seconds from my first preview. Nobody else had seen it so far. The phishing site warning came to me (webmaster) in less than an hour.
So it seems to me that the damn browser is making the decision and reporting to Google which then automatically checks and blocks the site. So the site is being reported to Google by Google tools, the trial is run by Google and the sentence is given by Google. Very, very nice indeed.

View network activity for browser child window

I need to reverse-engineer some javascript application which does authorization using facebook auth.
Facebook auth window pops up, asks for my permissions, and gets closed instantly, so I am unable to grasp anything from the performed action, as it's too fast.
The problem is that neither Chrome DevTools, nor Firefox Firebug does display network activity for child windows like OAuth permission.
Is there a way to enable FULL network log? An extension, whatever? (It better be free and easy to use)
If you're using Windows, you need Fiddler. If you're not, you'll have to settle for Wireshark. Wireshark is more-general and an amazing tool, but Fiddler does a much better job for HTTP and SSL conversations like you're going to be examining.