Google wants you to use it. If it blacklists excess domains that hold legitimate sites, their product gets worse. If they blacklist illegitimate sites, their product gets better.

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cwnyth 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This argument would hold more weight if Google didn't have a history of making their own products worse and then getting rid of them.

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zenapollo 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cute. That is the commenter’s whole point about monopolies. Google is on record making their product worse to squeeze revenue. We’ve been living in the enshitification economy.

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simsla 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There is a financial incentive to make the search results worse. (More searches, more ads, more money.)

There is no incentive for adding false positives to lists of malicious websites.

	▲	crote 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, until their "smart filters" start considering GCP-hosted websites as pre-verified and small self-hosted websites as malicious. You know, like they have been doing with email? Chrome is big enough that a website owner can't afford a false positive on their malware list, just like they can't afford to have all their email end up in spam for all Gmail users. Due to their near-monopoly Google also has no incentive to avoid adding false positives to their blocklist - provided they don't accidentally block high-profile targets. And if a CxO is screaming over your shoulder that your website has been blocked, arguments about "false positives" aren't very compelling: they'll just demand you move off the "shitty basement provider" and switch to "proper hosting, like the Google Cloud"...

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squeefers 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> We’ve been living in the enshitification economy.

that whiny bullshit about somebody elses website? you dont have to rely on a website or app. either you need their monopoly because you cant do it yourself, or you have options.... in both cases the whining is not needed

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lazide 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Same as for those antiviruses.