Started this morning. All of my personal tools like nextcloud and RSS reader were blocked, and I had to go manually override that screen for each one. Unacceptable.

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        Reports of individual subdomains that are running shit lead to the main site slowly being pushed to “generally non-safe”.

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        Anyone also using that free subdomain is linked to you because you’re both using the same domain

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            You’re welcome.

            Think of it as you sharing a house with other people. You all have your own rooms (subdomains) but live at the same address (domain). You try to order a takeaway but they’ve blacklisted your address because another resident abused their service

            (Analogy for anyone else who comes across this)

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        I imagine that domain is mostly used for spam/phishing sites so Google preemptively blocks all sub domains until they prove they aren’t spam. That’s one of the shortcomings of using a free domain I guess.

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          That’s one of the shortcomings of using a free domain I guess.

          Domains are cheap as dirt for the most part anyways, it’s like 12$/year for a .com if you don’t mind having one of those weirder TLDs I’ve seen those as cheap as 2$/year

          2 dollars a year

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            I got 1 dollar a year on my domain, gen.xyz has some real cheap domains if you don’t care about it being a string of 6-9 numbers.

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        Just get a cheap domain. Free domain will always get flagged, unless it’s for a service with no development API. It’s too easy as an attack vector, so those free domains often get flagged. If you want to avoid it all together, just get a cheap domain you own and control.

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      I’m not, I guess I wouldn’t be surprised if this happened and I was though. Thanks for the context.