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Re: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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The issue is that current law around monopolies defines them from the wrong angle. Instead of taking a consumer-centric / competition perspective, they should be defined in terms of market share (with markets broadly defined from a consumer perspective). >10% = some minimal interoperability and reporting requirements >25% = serious interoperability requirements >35% = severe and audited interoperability requirements,…

well exactly, Verizon, Amazon, etc all LOVE more regulation. they have armies of lawyers who not only help in constructing the laws, they help pass, lobby and implement them. then the same law firms help amazon, verizon, etc execute it. It's regulatory capture now a small competitor wants to do something like get into the wifi game and they're look at huge fixed fees to get started.

Fixed fees are nothing.

If you want to make electronics with any complexity, you'll suddenly discover that you need to pay patent fees. And those come as a fixed share of your revenue. Add enough complexity and you can easily be required to pay more than 100% of your revenue in fees.

Re: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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You'd have to break most of those platforms' TOS to do so.

Was Pidgin TOS-compliant back in the day? I'm a young whippersnapper, so I don't have experience with it myself.

Well it did have to change its name from GAIM to Pidgin at some point because it infringed on "AIM" by AOL. And whether or not Pidgin was fully "TOS-compliant" (which it might have been depending on the service we'd be looking at) is not as relevant as whether these terms would have been actually legally enforceable or not.

Re: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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Happened to me last week. One morning we wake up and the whole company website does not work. Not advice with some time to fix any possible problem, just blocked. We gave very bad image to our clients and users, and had to give explanations of a false positive from google detection. The culprit, according to google search console, was a double redirect on our web email domain (/ -> inbox -> login). After just moving…

This looks like the same suicide inducing type of crap by google that previously only android devs on playstore were subject to.

I'm permanently banned from the Play Store because 10+ years ago I made a third-party Omegle client, called it Yo-megle (neither Omegle nor Yo-megle still exist now), got a bunch of downloads and good ratings, then about 2 years later got a message from Google saying I was banned for violating trademark law. No actual legal action, just a message from Google. I suppose I'm lucky they didn't delete my entire Google account.

Re: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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I've been thinking for a while that a coordinated and massive action against a specific company by people all claiming damages in small claims court would be a very effective way of bringing that company to heel.

I wonder how that will work with mandatory arbitration clauses. Guess you don't know until you try.

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Re: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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I'm beginning to seriously think we need a new internet, another protocol, other browsers just to break up the insane monopolies that has been formed, because the way things are going soon all discourse will be censored, and competitors will be blocked soon. We need something that's good for small and medium businesses again, local news and get an actual marketplace going - you know what the internet actually promise…

It won't get anywhere unless it addresses the issue of spam, scammers, phishing etc. The whole purpose of Google Safe Browsing is to make life harder for scammers.

How does the Internet addresses that?

Re: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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This can happen to everyone. It happened to Amazon.de's Cloudfront endpoint a week ago. Most people didn't notice because Chrome doesn't look at the intermediate bits in the resolver chain, but DNS providers using Safe Browsing blocked it.

https://github.com/nextdns/metadata/issues/1425

Re: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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If you're going to host user content on subdomains, then you should probably have your site on the Public Suffix List https://publicsuffix.org/list/ . That should eventually make its way into various services so they know that a tainted subdomain doesn't taint the entire site....

In the past, browsers used an algorithm which only denied setting wide-ranging cookies for top-level domains with no dots (e.g. com or org). However, this did not work for top-level domains where only third-level registrations are allowed (e.g. co.uk). In these cases, websites could set a cookie for .co.uk which would be passed onto every website registered under co.uk. Since there was and remains no algorithmic meth…

All web encryption is backed by static list of root certs each browser maintains.

Idk any other way to solve it for the general public (ideally each user would probably pick what root certs they trust), but it does seem crazy.

Re: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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In 2025 you can use Beeper (or run your own local Matrix server with the opensource bridges) and get the same result with WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Discord, Google Messages, etc. etc.

isn't beeper non-free? there aren't that many decent matrix bridges.

All the Beeper bridges are open source and self hostable: https://github.com/beeper

Re: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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Be sure to see the team's whole list of Cursed Knowledge. https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge

I love Immich & greatly appreciate the amazing work the team put into maintaining it, but between the OP & this "Cursed Knowledge" page, the apparent team culture of shouting from the rooftops complaints that expose their own ignorance about technology is a little concerning to be honest. I've now read the entire Cursed Knowledge list & - while I found some of them to be invaluable insights & absolutely love the idea…

You're taking the word cursed way too seriously

This is just a list of things that can catch devs off guard

Re: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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This is not accurate. I filed a claim against Bungalow in Oregon. They petitioned the judge to allow their in house attorney I was dealing with to represent them. The judge denied the request citing the Oregon statute that attorneys may not participate in small claims proceedings. Bungalow flew out their director of some division who was ill prepared. Slam dunk. took all of 6-8 hours of my time end to end. The claim…

I’m guessing you got luck and most justices consent?

Why would you guess that? Most justices concern themselves with statute.
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