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.
Looks like Google is the responsible one, not Firefox. Don’t shoot the messenger.
Why is firefox trusting the evil empire to tell it what sites are safe?
Don’t have the funding to themselves, and probably worth it so new users don’t get fucked
You can just disable Google Safe Browsing in the settings.
But the problem is the general public. People who have it enabled won’t be able to visit his website.
It doesn’t seem to be a public website
All of my personal tools like nextcloud and RSS reader were blocked
Set up google search console for that domain, then it will tell you why it’s blocked. It might be a false positive you can flag, or it might be that a host or service has been compromised or contains something harmful. Google’s blocklist is quite aggressive and often blocks entire domains if one of their subdomains has a violation.
Yeah, people are getting really upset at Google/Mozilla here but SafeBrowsing is actually a very good service. I legitimately believe that it frequently prevents malware infections and phishing on a regular basis. It is also architected with a privacy-first approach that reveals very little data to Google. And the SafeBrowsing privacy policy is actually one of Google’s very tight ones.
I think Mozilla made the right choice to enable it by default. They also make it fairly easy to disable this for advanced users under the “Deceptive Content and Dangerous Software Protection” setting. (No need to crack open
about:config, disabling it is fully supported.)I understand that this may be a controversial opinion.
Thank you for the advice!
google owns the internet
That’s weird. Google is using Safe Browsing to censor the Internet.
You can go to
about:configand setbrowser.safebrowsing.blockedURIs.enabledto false.It will be better if Mozilla make their own version of Google Safe Browsing. Because less Google is good.
Thank you for the tip!
it lieratly gives you a link to report a detection problem
Happend to me recently, with no option to “ignore and continue”. I opened the page in private mode and it worked. Weird.
Are you using a free subdomain?
I am and have this issue sometimes. What’s the connection / cause?
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.
I think people are missing the point here if they say “just click through”. Mozilla’s reliance on Google could potentially be anticompetitive in nature if Google is essentially worsening a self hosted service which would compete with their own offerings.
Except this is more a symptom of relying on someone else’s hardware, network connectivity, and/or domain. Google isn’t blacklisting Nextcloud.
