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0 pointsmkishi5mo ago0 comments

It's hard to get that point because you're conflating two different stories.

Folks around here are generally uneasy about tracking in general too, but remove big brother monitoring from Safe Browsing and this story could still be the same: whole domain blacklisted by Google, only due to manual reporting instead.

"Oh, but a human reviewer would've known `*.statichost.eu` isn't managed by us"—not in a lot of cases, not really.

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ericselin5mo ago

Sure, and sorry for being so unclear. The point of my post was meant to be a) Google has this enormous cannon, is this "right"? And b) they will use it to kill anything bigger than a mosquito.

But you're right, complaining about big tech surveillance didn't help with making that point at all.

trod12345mo ago

> But you're right, complaining about big tech surveillance didn't help with making that point at all.

I disagree. Everyone with a brain is thinking it. Its important to address what your audience may be thinking especially given the other factors in this which I've mentioned in other responses related to gross negligence.

Technical capability exists to narrowly define blacklists, and they chose a gross negligence route (baby with bathwater), without providing notice.

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