#safebrowsing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #safebrowsing, aggregated by home.social.
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Did you miss our circus reports? Thought the clowns are gone? Unfortunately not – we just didn't want to bore you with weekly updates on those "alleged malware findings". We still keep track, though – and we now have a better place to keep the protocols. So let me share that place with you:
https://docs.katastima.org/s/iod-alleged-malware-reports
Still 100% false positives. Stopped counting how many, though…
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@IzzyOnDroid The only reason I still have this 'feature' on in browsers. Is to know first hand when my domains inevitably get flagged again for no reason.
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Ui, we're not alone, who'd have guessed. The F-Droid.org mirror at FAU (Friedrich-Alexander-University) meanwhile shows the following text if you try to download an APK file using your web browser:
Unfortunately, Google abuses "SafeSearch" to flag our fdroid-mirror as "malicious" - because nobody is permitted to offer .apk-files for download other than the Google Play Store! As most browsers are dumb enough to trust "SafeSearch" to flag …
(1/2) #Google #SafeBrowsing
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For the 5th time this month, Google marks us red for alleged malware they cannot even name. Can someone please shut that automatic bullshit generator down, please?
Btw, if you're looking for how to disable that circus component in your Android browsers, see here for instructions: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/4909577#notes-on-how-to-disable-google-safebrowsing-in-browsers-on-android
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Another week, another clown act: once more alleged malware, but no clue what or where (empty list). Can someone please shut that thing down? False alerts:
* 4 in 6/2026
* 5 in 5/2026
* 3 in 4/2026
* 5 in 3/2026Justified alerts in those 4 month: 0
Hey Google: Donation links are in my profile. Please pay for the time you let me waste on this. Add a fee for defamation on top, always warning people with Chrome & Co our sites were unsafe.
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Those clowns are at it again. Yesterday's report (not able to name any malicious URL), today was replaced by another one for a file known to be a false positive for years (those malware engines are incapable/unwilling to fix their signatures). And they flagged it for multiple websites – including those were the file does not even exist 🤦♂️
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Oh, the clowns are back again. Alleged malware, but no URLs. Does someone have a bot to auto-respond, requesting a review with a text like "all indicated URLs have been cleared", so I don't have to do that manually each time? 🤦♂️
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It gets boring. Again just 3 days, and the clowns are back, claiming alleged malware without being able to even name an example… Can someone please close that circus?
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@IzzyOnDroid No " #safebrowsing " here ... #fairphone with #murena #eos
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Wow, new record: less than 3 days for the next false positive. What do the folks at #Google #SafeBrowsing have as profession? How many clowns do they have for breakfast? 🤦♂️
OK, "same procedure as every year, James". Tell me y'all have turned off this fake security setting, and I simply stop playing their game…
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This is ridiculous. Just 3 days after the "unknown malware" was declared gone, those clowns are back – with the very same "unknown". They cannot even name what they claim to have found.
Again, if they want to have _real_ findings, they should simply scan their own domains…
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It is not our circus, so why do those clowns always come to us – at least twice a month? "Malware found on your website – but we have no clue what or where" 🤦♂️ Does anyone still trust that "service" for safe browsing?
https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/4909577#google-safebrowsing
I've stopped counting how many, but always false "positives". While I still get the daily spam/scam hosted at storage.googleapis.com (a site they do NOT scan. Guess they have their reasons. Just imagine them blocking themselves 🍿)
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Oh, the clowns are back in town 🤦♂️ Seems to be the same file as last time, I guess (that is: none)? Or do I misread their report? 🤔 Too much "AI" there, I guess – while much lack of NI? How comes that "service" is still in business?!?
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This incompetence is … olympic? Took them just 2 days to pop this up again. Instructions they give on how "to fix this problem":
"Check the example URLs on the 'Security Issues' page in Search Console. Note that this page displays a list of samples and not an exhaustive list of problematic URLs."
No, indeed no "exhaustive list". It's an EMPTY list, so this advice cannot even be followed 🤦♂️
They shall be trusted to control safety of all Internet & devices? 🤯
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New month I guess? 4 weeks since the last fake alert? Can someone please shut down whatever produces all those false positives?!?
Yupp, this time Goog claims we've been hacked. They just don't know where. So I've requested a review now, stating all indicated pages have been cleaned 🤷♂️
Should you still use that "safe" browsing – consider switching it off. Or at least be very skeptic when it shows you something.
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"Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites in our dataset. […] Google is, quite literally, hosting phishing attacks on its own infrastructure and not catching them with its own detection tools"
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Day 4 again, without any response. Quite a reliable service that: you can rely on it to let you wait. What does that run on, that it takes that long? An Arduino Pico? Needless to say that the alleged malware file does not even exist, and never was malicious.
Filed another review request.
Again: disable that stuff. Seems to have more false positives than real stuff. Especially as entire domains hosting the real stuff (like storage.googleapis.com) are excluded from scan.
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Day 4. A response, finally. The usual clown message: Review failed. Well, the "clown message" is the one in the attached graphic: They don't know themselves. Something something link, but they don't know which. Or, in other words: "These URLs host malware or unwanted software downloads: None". 🤦♂️
If that's how reliable their services are, maybe they should NOT hold the keys to the entire Internet (and app stores)? 🤔
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I had filed a reevaluation request before I tooted this. 2 days later, no reply yet (why does their bot take THAT long?). Instead I hear, another "fine tool" kicked in: Play "Protect" refuses installation of the allegedly malicious app, and even uninstalls them AUTOMATICALLY, without asking you! https://github.com/sunilpaulmathew/AppVaultX/issues/6#issuecomment-4079105010
Another rather questionable tool you might consider to get rid of (unless you install a lot from "questionable sources").
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Of course the review failed (as usual, without a notification mail). Now they pick random APK files: remove one, then it's the next. Until the repo is empty, I guess. Snippet updated.
Disable "Safe" browsing, it's snake oil as you can see. We've been libeled now many times, always false positives. See https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/4909577#notes-on-how-to-disable-google-safebrowsing-in-browsers-on-android for how to disable it.
Of course all our APKs have been scanned, multiple times, with many engines. They're clean. Says even G's own scanner.
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Oh my, those clowns again. They cannot even tell servers apart, but want to play the "Safety Police"? What are they doing for a living, by the way (apart from slurping and selling our data)?
Yes, that's the same file as in January. On a different server. But they flag yet another, that does not even have that file. Incompetent folks, they should shut down that "service". Will they ever stop that nonsense?!?
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Remember our "experience" with Google Safebrowsing in December 2025/January 2026? And that I doubted the "Safe" in its name? Well:
"Google is, quite literally, hosting phishing attacks on its own infrastructure and not catching them with its own detection tools."
Not catching a single one, that is – see the graphic below (hint: red means missed). But they compensate that by flagging safe sides, no worries 🤦♂️
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It's taken them more than 36h to reevaluate their "finding". The files are non-existing for at least 38h. Still: review failed. They now mark us red for a file that does not even exist! How should one trust such a service to be safe – and not just a random annoyance?
Honestly, if it's THAT reliable, rather turn it off. It seems to be rather useless (for you and me), and utilized for censorship (or how else should one understand this?)
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Damn, @mozilla is doing everything it can to make good folks hate it :blobcatnotlike:
First Mozilla enables Google Safe Browsing, and then blocks accessing
about:configon Firefox Android :blobcatthumbsdown:Google is banning @IzzyOnDroid for no good reason, yet I have to jump multiple steps to configure Firefox: that is, first to enable
about:configby accessingchrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtmland togglinggeneral.aboutConfig.enableto even access nastybrowser.safebrowsing.*settings.Google is known for breaking antitrust law, this may be yet another case of eliminating alternative app stores from the radar.
Seriously, Mozilla, why you are trying so hard to make everyone hate you?
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Oh, look! Another tech messiah has arrived, and it's called #GrapheneOS. 🎉 The only Android OS that keeps you safe from... well, everything but boring Mastodon updates and JavaScript woes. 🙄 Go ahead, enable JavaScript, and feel your IQ drop. 📉
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115647408229616018 #TechMessiah #AndroidSecurity #SafeBrowsing #JavaScriptWoes #HackerNews #ngated -
Google SafeBrowsing™ strikes again…
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🚨BREAKING NEWS: The 🤖 overlords at Google have deemed Immich sites "dangerous," leaving their team with a newfound sense of "Cursed Knowledge" 🔮. Turns out, the #redscreenofdeath is not a trendy new app but a sign that maybe Immich should have read the ~directions~ on Google Safe Browsing. 📉
https://immich.app/blog/google-flags-immich-as-dangerous #breakingnews #googleimmich #cursedknowledge #dangersites #safebrowsing #HackerNews #ngated -
Google Patches Critical Chrome Vulnerability (CVE-2025-11756) in Safe Browsing Component https://thecyberexpress.com/chrome-bug-cve-2025-11756/ #TheCyberExpressNews #Vulnerabilities #TheCyberExpress #FirewallDaily #CVE202511756 #SafeBrowsing #CyberNews #Chrome #Google
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This is one of my known bugs/limitations that has affected my Fediverse instances and my other domain names that I pay rent for. Currently, when I check my domain names on the Google domain judgment site, there is no record indicating that my domain names are trusted by Google. That's why Google (Safe Browsing) has simply labeled my domains as unsafe, marked in red. So, I am working to make my domain names safe by verifying my DNS records with Google’s details from time to time. Have a nice day! 😄☀️
#DomainSafety #GoogleTrust #SafeBrowsing #WebSecurity #DNSVerification #CyberSafety #OnlineTrust #Fediverse #WebDevelopment #TechCommunity #DigitalSafety #InternetSecurity #DomainNames #WebHosting #CyberAwareness #TrustOnline