TGB1718 Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 5 minutes ago, Albert said: I wonder if they have a whitelist of file extensions they allow without these frightening warnings. I've been checking and "Googling" but can't find anything helpful, just a load of people moaning about the same issue with no real resolution Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfriendly Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 For those of us that aren't very tech savvy is the low setting in Chrome ok? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Video Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Wow, that sux dude. I think its more over bearing security features of various os 's than anything wrong with atariage though. Thanks for the heads up anyways Albert, even though I'm sure most us long haul members have never gotten anything bad from the site (at least I never have, despite lots of DL over the years.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted April 12 Author Share Posted April 12 5 minutes ago, TGB1718 said: just a load of people moaning about the same issue I'm not surprised at all, and good luck trying to get Google to change anything they do. Might have better luck with Firefox. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-MoonOwO- Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 I was wondering about that warning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 I was trying to download something yesterday from AA, and I finally ended up having to use... Microsoft Edge. Ugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 I don't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure in Firefox it gives you the warning with an option to Download it anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bent_pin Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 (edited) I'm having a relatively difficult time finding any .bin or a26 file to even check it out, so if it's fine.. I'll try my own. 😛 <edit> interesting! Yep.. confirmed Skeet Shoot 1981 Apollo.bin Fire Fly (USA).a26 Edited April 12 by NE146 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeatari1 Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Thanks for the notification Albert. I don't generally download game files myself but I will keep this in mind if I decide to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Under Chrome, pulling up the Downloads tab (Shortcut Ctrl-J), also gives an option to download 'potential dangerous' file anyway, when it is initially blocked. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Are .bin files .rom files? Not to be confused with .car that have binary loader headers. 😛 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 I just 'download anyways' the 'dangerous file'. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Spanish Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 ok, so, try this in chrome: 1. Open Google Chrome and type "chrome://settings/content/insecureContent" in the address bar. 2. Under the "Allow" section, click "Add" and enter the file extension you want to allow (e.g. ".bin"). 3. Repeat step 2 for each file extension you want to allow (e.g. ".atr", ".atx"). 4. After adding all the extensions, click "Done". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Tyler Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 I was wondering about this myself. It's good to know I'm not the only one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kikipdph Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 If a bin file is placed in a zip file, there are no restrictions during download. If the forum allows zip files, it might be good to suggest to people to use zip files in the future. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Kaboomer Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 2 hours ago, Ricky Spanish said: ok, so, try this in chrome: 1. Open Google Chrome and type "chrome://settings/content/insecureContent" in the address bar. 2. Under the "Allow" section, click "Add" and enter the file extension you want to allow (e.g. ".bin"). 3. Repeat step 2 for each file extension you want to allow (e.g. ".atr", ".atx"). 4. After adding all the extensions, click "Done". This just took me to an area to allow certain websites but not extensions. Can you help further on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGHMW Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 I said “f**k this shit!” and totally disabled all protections as I already have AVG Internet Security in which allows EVERYTHING to go through fine while just eliminating the malware and or virus involved. I myself also like to use various foreign-based downloading sites for downloading MP3s and other content off of YouTube videos as well as Vimeo and Dailymotion and also other select videos including porn and AVG handles those fine too. But I agree Big Tech is going TOO FAR as to tell us what sites they deem as “dangerous”, like two I like to use like yt5s.com and btclod.com in which are two I use mostly for downloading YouTube videos and MP3s off of them, I think that it’s about time to tell Big Tech to SHOVE IT!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSchoolRetroGamer Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 26 minutes ago, BIGHMW said: and also other select videos including porn and AVG handles those fine too. You ever thought of, oh I don't know........NOT SHARING SOME THINGS WITH THIS FORUM? 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 7 hours ago, Ricky Spanish said: chrome://settings/content/insecureContent Unfortunately that option is not available on my version of Chrome, you can only add sites, not file extensions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 8 hours ago, Trebor said: Under Chrome, pulling up the Downloads tab (Shortcut Ctrl-J), also gives an option to download 'potential dangerous' file anyway, when it is initially blocked. Thank you, that worked, some time ago Chrome used to show that option on the Downloads Icon but it disappeared, why do they do things like that and just hide the functionality 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 6 hours ago, kikipdph said: If a bin file is placed in a zip file, there are no restrictions during download. If the forum allows zip files, it might be good to suggest to people to use zip files in the future. Nope, mine is failing on .zip and .tar files too if they contain any of the "banned" extensions 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrshoujo Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 For what it's worth, I'm using Chrome on Android & I have no such download warnings. It dutifully downloads stuff without frequent warnings. It's usually the Security crap of the website it will advise as Unsafe but let me keep a download anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary from OPA Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 From my tests, it nothing to do with extensions as a zip file containing just .txt files does the same. Also I uploaded the same .zip files and .txt files to my GitHub https://github.com/gary99opa/3DStringArt And they download fine from there even the full release zip with compiled binaries in it. So my thinking still is that the URL or CDN itself is flagged by some service that all the browsers are using so it doesn't matter what the file is, all tho for some strange reason you can still download a .PDF without a warning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newTIboyRob Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 (edited) Chrome has been blocking things such as.d64's for me as well. I tried Microsoft Edge and thus far haven't encountered any DL issues. Edited April 13 by newTIboyRob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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