Help HN: Google just blocked my site as deceptive site

Post by Matsta » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 11:48 AM UTC

uploaderwin wrote: post #19

Matsta wrote: post #18

I just had a look on Ahrefs and couldn't notice anything weird. One thing I did notice, is that you have your jpg's inline. McAfee and other virus protection apps are completely trigger happy anytime you encode a substantial amount of "code" (yes it's an image). I would try removing the inline images and linking them and see if that makes any difference.

Thanks for checking and help. Yes I too believe this could be one of the cause as I've mentioned below in another comment, virustotal site says 'base64-embedded'. Those are just svg images I've embedded in the html to reduce the number of requests. But I'm not taking chances and making them seperate files.

Post by nsturtz » Wed, Mar 03, 2021, 10:37 PM UTC

ryanmcdonough wrote: post #20

uploaderwin wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes you are correct they can download it too. After thinking about it for the last 4 hours that is all i can think off caused the problem. I have nothing which can be called deceptive text on any of my site otherwise. I will probably delete files after 2 mins instead of 24 hours. Another option is I ask for credit card details before I let them try the demo. This can get rid of letting anyone misusing the demo featur…

Just as a point, I wouldn’t give you credit card details to try a demo. I don’t think many people would - hard enough to get people to give them for a trial, nevermind to try uploading a file.