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ericselin | 4 months ago

I respectfully disagree with your premise. In this specific case, yes, "Google does good thing" in a sense. That is not why I'm saying Google has too much power. "Too much" is relative and whether they do good or bad debatable, of course, but it's hard to argue that they don't have a gigantic influence on the whole internet, no? :)

Helping people avoid potentially devastating mistakes is of course a good thing.

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neon_erosion|4 months ago

What point are you trying to make here? You hosted phishing sites on your primary domain, which was then flagged as unsafe. You chose not to use the tools that would have marked those sites as belonging to individual users, and the system worked as designed.

ericselin|4 months ago

Please note that this tool (PSL) is not available until you have a significant user base. Which probably means a significant amount of spam as well.

thetimman8|4 months ago

You're not wrong. You just picked a poor example which illustrates the opposite of the point you're making.

faust201|4 months ago

> but it's hard to argue that they don't have a gigantic influence on the whole internet, no? :)

Then don't relate this to safe browsing. What is the connection?

You could have just written a one liner. Google has too much power. This has nothing to do with safe-browsing.

In fact you could write...

- USA/China/EU etc has too much power..

You use the word relative in another reply..

Same way.. My employer has relatively too much power...