Bow to the mighty browser

If the browser wars failed to convince you how powerful your web browser is, consider this example. 

Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!

Yes, I am using Google Chrome in this example. 

Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!

The website at eu.techcrunch.com appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that hosts malware can infect your computer.

For detailed information about the problems with this site, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for eu.techcrunch.com.

Learn more about how to protect yourself from harmful software online.

 I understand that visiting this site may harm my computer. 

Can you see how Google could get effectively shut out from the Internet if Microsoft owned all the browser market and "accidentally" managed to get Google services blacklisted? Yeah, bow to the mighty browser!

Update: If you want to know about the specific case in hand, please head over to eu.techcrunch.com As of this writing, the issue is fixed and there are no error messages on my part in Google Chrome.