Is googleusercontent.com Safe?

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googleusercontent.com is a domain owned and used by Google. It is used for both uploading and downloading content from the Google CDN "Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) put website content on servers that are spread throughout the world. This is done so that users will always load content from a server close to them. This causes content to load faster and more efficiently." Read more about CDN at ***** For example if you need to upload content to your Google Drive this domain name is use during the upload process That domain name does online tracking to deliver its services though Source about domain name owned by Google Inc. at https://whois.domaintools.com/googleusercontent.com

The key word here is user content, meaning that though the system may be Google's the content is generated by its users. I'm sure they've implemented a system to filter out and remove malicious content ... but nothing is perfect, and with an entity as big as Google with many, many users, you can't really expect them to catch everything. So though it is likely generally safe one must be careful about the content they access through it and would likely not want it running when something sensitive is open.

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I like the (old) comment of Pianosa! As we are 'obliged' to use this site in many situation, the google-robot ( http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=googleusercontent.com {*}) stated: "last visit on ***** potentially malwares: 39593 trojan(s), 13779 exploit(s), 391 scripting exploit(s)." Sorry for not translate it, but: (you can read it yourself! {*}) "Ce site a-t-il servi d'intermédiaire pour favoriser la propagation de logiciels malveillants ? [propagating malwares] Au cours des 90 derniers jours, googleusercontent.com semble avoir servi d'intermédiaire pour l'infection de 31 site(s), y compris alanyada-ucuzotel.com/, crpcoutreach.blogspot.com/, ***** Ce site a-t-il hébergé des logiciels malveillants [malwares]? Oui [YES ;)], ce site a hébergé des logiciels malveillants au cours des 90 derniers jours. Il a infecté 48724 domaine(s), y compris youtube-cn.com/, j.mp/, ***** So I can't trust it! But it looks like it's an obligation to allow it in some cases, so....

This site has hosted malicious software according to Google's Safe Browsing Diagnostic: Over the past 90 days, 45, 252 pages were tested. Yesterday, Malicious software was found that included 68 exploit(s), 36 scripting exploit(s), 11 trojan(s). "Over the past 90 days, googleusercontent.com appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 11 site(s)..." "Yes, this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 21 domain(s),..." http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=googleusercontent.com