Google Classroom - wonky metadata when adding a URL

[jthompson]

Hi all

 

We've spotted something strange when adding a particular web link as a material in Google Classroom. When adding a link, GC will gather a bit of metadata from it and use that to present the link with the page title. For one particular link, https://cinemontage.org/editing-selma-union-legacy-martin-luther-king/, GC is displaying a Viagra advert as the page title. Other pages from the same site appear to work fine.

 

 

I can't see where it might be getting that dodgy page title from, as the proper page title appears in the page's source, and gets displayed as expected by the web browser.

 

Would other mind checking to see if GC behaves the same elsewhere when fed that same URL?

[RLR]

I'm seeing the same. Tested a few pages on that website but only seems to be this one that is doing it. If you copy and paste the url in to Google Search bar you get the same dodgy heading. I wonder if their website has been compromised or at some point in the past maybe: https://www.malcare.com/blog/what-is-pharma-hack-how-to-clean-it/

[jthompson]

That's great, thank you. As I suspected but you know when you just want to know that it's not something funky with your network.