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Re: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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lucideer wrote: post #371
kevincox wrote: post #358

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Both things can be problems. 1. You should host dev stuff and separate domains. 2. Google shouldn't be blocking your preview environments.

A safe browsing service is not a terrible idea (which is why both Safari & Firefox use Google for this) & while I hate that Google has a monopoly here, I do think a safe browsing service should absolutely block your preview environments if those environments have potential dangers for visitors to them & are accessible to the public.

It is a terrible idea when what is "safe" is determined arbitrarily by a private corporation that is perhaps the biggest source of malicious behavior on the web.

Re: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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dmoreno wrote: post #288

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…

Have you talked to your lawyer? Making Google pay for their carelessness is the ONLY way to get them to care.

Re: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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MrDarcy wrote: post #415
dmoreno wrote: post #288

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…

File a small claim for damages up to 10,000 to 20,000 USD depending on your local statues. It’s actually pretty quick and easy. They cannot defend themselves with lawyers, so a director usually has to show up.

Do small claims apply to things like this where damages are indirect?

Re: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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Tryk wrote: post #504
93po wrote: post #480

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it wouldn't work. they'd hire some minimum wage person to go to all of them and just read the terms and conditions you agreed to that include language about arbitration or whatever

Terms of service, written by a corporation, do not overrule the law, of a country.

Especially not when the plaintiff isn't even a user of the service.

Re: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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hallway_monitor wrote: post #501
14 wrote: post #485

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How did they agree to those terms?

Probably includes something insane like "By allowing your website to be crawled by google spiders, you agree to the following terms...."

Ok, by not objecting withing 5 seconds you hereby agree to let me shoot you in the head.

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bmacho wrote: post #474
dymk wrote: post #447

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And now your Gmail account has been deleted as well as any other accounts you had with Google

That's okay, you have backup of your data, and you don't really depend on your Gmail account for anything important.

The problem here wouldn't be the data but all the people whose only (or at least primary) way to reach you is the Gmail address.

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hamburglar wrote: post #516
mcv wrote: post #473

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Want to see how often Microsoft accounts redirect you? I'd love to see Google block all of Microsoft, but of course that will never happen, because these tech giants are effectively a cartel looking out for each other. At least in comparison to users and smaller businesses.

The reason Google doesn’t block Microsoft isn’t that they’re “looking out for Microsoft.” They’re looking out for themselves by being aware that blocking something that millions of people use would be bad for business.

Same difference.

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kossTKR wrote: post #300
dmoreno wrote: post #288

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…

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…

This is not a technical problem. You will not solve it with purely technical solutions.

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LinXitoW wrote: post #260
liquid_thyme wrote: post #64

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I really don't know how they got nerds to think scummy advertising is cool. If you think about it, the thing they make money on - no user actually wants ads or wants to see them, ever. Somehow Google has some sort of nerd cult that people think its cool to join such an unethical company.

It's super simple. Check out all the Fediverse alternatives. How many people that talk a big game actually financially support those services? 2% maybe, on the high end. Things cost money, and at a large scale, there's either capitalism, or communism.

> there's either capitalism, or communism

Can you point them out on the map?

Re: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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darthwalsh wrote: post #617
MzHN wrote: post #386

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> Carriage returns in bash scripts are cursed Also the full story here seemed to be 1. Person installs git on Windows with autocrlf enabled, automatically converting all LF to CRLF (very cursed in itself in my opinion). 2. Does their thing with git on the Windows' side (clone, checkout, whatever). 3. Then runs the checked out (and now broken due to autocrlf) code on Linux instead of Windows via WSL. The biggest footg…

The biggest mistake was running Linux programs over files created by Windows programs. Anything you move between those worlds is suspect.

It wouldn't be a problem if git didn't try to magic away the difference.
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