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Google bots decided that my parody website[0] that very clearly says "Foogle" instead of "Google" constitutes phishing and is now automatically blocked in Chrom

Google bots decided that my parody website[0] that very clearly says "Foogle" instead of "Google" constitutes phishing and is now automatically blocked in Chrome and Firefox, despite not asking for any user input like email or password or name or anything that could slightly make it suspicious of being a phishing website, plus the sites uses unserious language like "Disunited States", it's a sad statement of their AI capabilities if a site like this gets automatically marked as "phishing", and the overall trend of abusing their power in the name of safety, a tale as old as time. [0] https://www.forbiddensearchdetected.com https://www.forbiddensearchdetected.com

0x073 9mo ago
I think it's ok, that there is a warning on a parody site than looks like Google.
- AmbroseBierce 9mo ago
  This is a full block not a warning in any conventional sense of the word, and it resembles Google but it very clearly says "Foogle" so it's not pretending to be Google, and no email or anything at all is asked from the user, so yeah it's just plain abuse of their power and very little space to argument that they are just being "overly cautious", but just like abuses by the state or the police there is always people in favor of such abuses in the name of safety.
shakna 9mo ago
Huh. And I can't even report a false detection. The form just errors out, in Google, Firefox. Privacy things disabled. > Something went wrong there. Try again. [0] https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_error/?tpl=mozilla&url=https:%2F%2Fwww.forbiddensearchdetected.com%2F https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_error/?t...
- DDR0 9mo ago
  Odd, I couldn't report it as a false positive the first time either, but then I tried again with dev tools open and it worked.
- rgun 9mo ago
  I think you have to fill in "additional details" field for it to work. I did it and it worked alright
  - shakna 9mo ago
    Oh, I wouldn't have thought to submit the report without filling that in. The console has: "service error: RpcError" The POST hangs up before it completes, and it seems to be because the JS can't lift a auth token for my Google account, maybe.
- dormento 9mo ago
  I removed the protocol and last slash from the URL and it worked. "False positive. Site does not ask for info and is clearly comedic in nature."
  - hnarn 9mo ago
    > I removed the protocol and last slash from the URL So effectively making it not a URL anymore despite being what the form asks for, that’s just great

0x073 9mo ago

I think it's ok, that there is a warning on a parody site than looks like Google.

AmbroseBierce 9mo ago
This is a full block not a warning in any conventional sense of the word, and it resembles Google but it very clearly says "Foogle" so it's not pretending to be Google, and no email or anything at all is asked from the user, so yeah it's just plain abuse of their power and very little space to argument that they are just being "overly cautious", but just like abuses by the state or the police there is always people in favor of such abuses in the name of safety.

shakna 9mo ago

Huh. And I can't even report a false detection. The form just errors out, in Google, Firefox. Privacy things disabled. > Something went wrong there. Try again. [0] https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_error/?tpl=mozilla&url=https:%2F%2Fwww.forbiddensearchdetected.com%2F https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_error/?t...

DDR0 9mo ago
Odd, I couldn't report it as a false positive the first time either, but then I tried again with dev tools open and it worked.
rgun 9mo ago
I think you have to fill in "additional details" field for it to work. I did it and it worked alright
- shakna 9mo ago
  Oh, I wouldn't have thought to submit the report without filling that in. The console has: "service error: RpcError" The POST hangs up before it completes, and it seems to be because the JS can't lift a auth token for my Google account, maybe.
dormento 9mo ago
I removed the protocol and last slash from the URL and it worked. "False positive. Site does not ask for info and is clearly comedic in nature."
- hnarn 9mo ago
  > I removed the protocol and last slash from the URL So effectively making it not a URL anymore despite being what the form asks for, that’s just great