[HN Gopher] Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
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       Google flags Immich sites as dangerous
        
       Author : janpio
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2025-10-22 20:53 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (immich.app)
 (TXT) w3m dump (immich.app)
        
       | donmcronald wrote:
       | I tried to submit this, but the direct link here is probably
       | better than the Reddit thread I linked to:
       | 
       | https://old.reddit.com/r/immich/comments/1oby8fq/immich_is_a...
       | 
       | I had my personal domain I use for self-hosting flagged. I've had
       | the domain for 25 years and it's never had a hint of spam,
       | phishing, or even unintentional issues like compromised sites /
       | services.
       | 
       | It's impossible to know what Google black box is doing, but, in
       | my case, I suspect my flagging was the result of failing to use a
       | large email provider. I use MXRoute for locally hosted services
       | and network devices because they do a better job of giving me
       | simple, hard limits for sending accounts. That way if anything I
       | have ever gets compromised, the damage in terms of spam will be
       | limited to (ex) 10 messages every 24h.
       | 
       | I invited my sister to a shared Immich album a couple days ago,
       | so I'm guessing that GMail scanned the email notifying her, used
       | the contents + some kind of not-google-or-microsoft sender
       | penalty, and flagged the message as potential spam or phishing.
       | From there, I'd assume the linked domain gets pushed into another
       | system that eventually decides they should blacklist the whole
       | domain.
       | 
       | The thing that really pisses me off is that I just received an
       | email in reply to my request for review and the whole thing is a
       | gas-lighting extravaganza. Google systems indicate your domain no
       | longer contains harmful links or downloads. Keep yourself safe in
       | the future by blah blah blah blah.
       | 
       | Umm. No! It's actually Google's crappy, non-deterministic,
       | careless detection that's flagging my legitimate resources as
       | malicious. Then I have to spend _my_ time running it down and
       | double checking everything before submitting a request to have
       | the false positive _mistake_ on Google 's end fixed.
       | 
       | Convince me that Google won't abuse this to make self hosting
       | unbearable.
        
       | captnasia wrote:
       | This seems related to another hosting site that got caught out by
       | this recently:
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538760
        
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