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Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

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?
6 May at 16:36 | Open on mastodon.social
22 comments
Mangdries

@gamingonlinux Open source software :troll: (I have no idea but that would be Appleโ€™s logic)

6 May at 16:42 | Open on fosstodon.org
Jaxay

@gamingonlinux ah yes, steam is so malicious. How dare you!!!

6 May at 16:43 | Open on mastodon.social
phi1997

@gamingonlinux
A link to uncompiled source code? Clearly suspicious!

6 May at 16:46 | Open on mastodon.social
Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

If anyone knows anyone at Google, give them a prod please.

6 May at 16:56 | Open on mastodon.social
Daniele Pantaleo ๐Ÿฆฅ:verified:

@gamingonlinux since you're still on X, maybe try pinging ArtemR from Android Police?

6 May at 17:00 | Open on techhub.social
Ray Of Sunlight

@gamingonlinux Prod? Sorry what's "prod"? ๐Ÿ˜…

7 May at 22:42 | Open on mastodon.social
Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I guess Google got the memo (thanks?) as any mention of this has vanished. No word to me though...

8 May at 11:39 | Open on mastodon.social
Riesi

@gamingonlinux if they falsely mark stuff as malware, they should give a free visibility boost as a compensation...
but they probably arent that kind :(

8 May at 15:26 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

@riesi nah they don't give a shit, it's all done by algorithms

9 May at 9:19 | Open on mastodon.social
Riesi

@gamingonlinux 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...

9 May at 9:34 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Olivier Menguรฉ

@gamingonlinux Maybe the mention of yuzu in "Related news this week"?

6 May at 17:05 | Open on mamot.fr
nxadm

@dolmen @gamingonlinux

That happens when we accept gatekeepers :/

6 May at 18:22 | Open on infosec.exchange
The Penguin of Evil

@gamingonlinux Everyone I know at Google left. Says it all. It might have better PR than twitter but the rest .. shrug

6 May at 19:12 | Open on mastodon.social
WSGF

@gamingonlinux 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.

6 May at 19:30 | Open on mastodon.social
Old Fucking Punk
Madagascar_Sky

@gamingonlinux
You had a link to github, which clearly makes you [record scratch, sunglasses pulled down] a ~*hacker man*~ !

6 May at 21:09 | Open on mastodon.social
elbullazul

@gamingonlinux 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?
7 May at 0:05 | Open on social.elbullazul.com
Bishop Whitewind
Atrapado๐ŸŒด๐Ÿซ

@gamingonlinux malicious blah blah is anything they don't force you to keep xD

7 May at 16:25 | Open on mastodon.social
RockManJoe

@gamingonlinux 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!

8 May at 6:04 | Open on fosstodon.org
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