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Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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1021 points janpio | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 20:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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heavyset_go ◴[23 Oct 25 01:25 UTC] No.45677171[source]▶
Insane that one company can dictate what websites you're allowed to visit. Telling you what apps you can run wasn't far enough.
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1. jeroenhd ◴[23 Oct 25 06:25 UTC] No.45678793[source]▶
It's the result of failures across the web, really. Most browsers started using Google's phishing site index because they didn't want to maintain one themselves but wanted the phishing resistance Google Chrome has. Microsoft has SmartScreen, but that's just the same risk model but hosted on Azure.

Google's eternal vagueness is infuriating but in this case the whole setup is a disaster waiting to happen. Google's accidental fuck-up just prevented "someone hacked my server after I clicked on pr-xxxx.imiche.app" because apparently the domain's security was set up to allow for that.

You can turn off safe browsing if you don't want these warnings. Google will only stop you from visiting sites if you keep the "allow Google to stop me from visiting some sites" checkbox enabled.