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Firefox is blocking my personal website based on flawed "Google Safe Browsing" What the hell? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Started this morning. All of my personal tools like nextcloud and RSS reader were blocked, and I had to go manually override that screen for each one. Unacceptable.

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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I am and have this issue sometimes. What’s the connection / cause?

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Reports of individual subdomains that are running shit lead to the main site slowly being pushed to "generally non-safe".

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is a crtified .zip moment

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How so?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Tldw; scammers trick people using .zip top level domains

    Google should retract these new top level domains- Brodie Robertson

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I personally like the domain.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The problem is just that it's too susceptible to being used to trick users, the services hosted on .zip domains aren't evil by default, like your instance that is completely legit.
    If you want to see (yet another) video, Thio Joe covered this really well imo

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Anyone also using that free subdomain is linked to you because you're both using the same domain

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ahhh, that makes sense. Thanks.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    You're welcome.

    Think of it as you sharing a house with other people. You all have your own rooms (subdomains) but live at the same address (domain). You try to order a takeaway but they've blacklisted your address because another resident abused their service

    (Analogy for anyone else who comes across this)

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I imagine that domain is mostly used for spam/phishing sites so Google preemptively blocks all sub domains until they prove they aren't spam. That's one of the shortcomings of using a free domain I guess.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I got 1 dollar a year on my domain, gen.xyz has some real cheap domains if you don't care about it being a string of 6-9 numbers.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Just get a cheap domain. Free domain will always get flagged, unless it's for a service with no development API. It's too easy as an attack vector, so those free domains often get flagged. If you want to avoid it all together, just get a cheap domain you own and control.

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