gamingonlinux, (edited )
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Sigh. Google flagged https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/classic-rts-perimeter-returns-as-perimeter-legate-edition-with-linux-support/page=1/ 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?

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

Ray_Of_Sunlight,
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@gamingonlinux Prod? Sorry what's "prod"? 😅

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

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

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

phi1997,

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A link to uncompiled source code? Clearly suspicious!

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

B_Whitewind,
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@gamingonlinux Ah, I see you've met their AI :')

gamingonlinux,
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@B_Whitewind Thanks, I hate it.

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

WSGF,
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@gamingonlinux Google flagging our site as malware drove us to retiring our forum back in 2019 - https://www.wsgf.org/article/google-flagging-wsgf-impacts-solutions

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.

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

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

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