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Sigh. Google flagged gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/clas… as containing "Malicious or unwanted software" with no way on the adsense control panel to speak to them, to get them to recheck it.

It's a news article about a game, that links to the GPL source code (GitHub) and a Steam page.

What about that is "Malicious or unwanted software" exactly?

Classic RTS Perimeter returns as PERIMETER: Legate Edition with Linux support

Perimeter originally released back in 2004, and it's set to make a return from developer K-D Lab with the PERIMETER: Legate Edition. It's also open source!
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If anyone knows anyone at Google, give them a prod please.
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I guess Google got the memo (thanks?) as any mention of this has vanished. No word to me though...
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Riesi
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if they falsely mark stuff as malware, they should give a free visibility boost as a compensation...
but they probably arent that kind 🙁
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Riesi
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yeah "nobody's fault"
I wish companies could be held more accountable when their systems fuck up even if its just an algorithm
Since their fuckup directly affected your income...
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The Penguin of Evil
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Everyone I know at Google left. Says it all. It might have better PR than twitter but the rest .. shrug
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Google flagging our site as malware drove us to retiring our forum back in 2019 - wsgf.org/article/google-flaggi…

It appears that the issue is much smaller in scope for you and we hope it can be solved by simply taking down the article if all else fails. In our case, removing the flagged files caused their algorithm to find and flag even more pages.

Google Flagging of the WSGF - Impacts & Solutions | WSGF

www.wsgf.org
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Madagascar_Sky
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You had a link to github, which clearly makes you [record scratch, sunglasses pulled down] a ~*hacker man*~ !
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last month Google flagged GitHub as insecure in my browser for a few minutes. I don't know what they're doing, but apparently they may consider GitHub unsafe at times?
Screenshot of a Safe Browsing page stating that github.com may contain harmful programs
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it sucks that Google dominates web search. I've switched to using DuckDuckGo and Ecosia. I know Bing powers them, but still more refreshing to use those services. I hope Google doesn't keep you down!

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