Google Safe Browsing Incident: statichost.eu Domain Wrongly Flagged as Deceptive
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ericselin
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Summary
The founder of statichost.eu reports that Google Safe Browsing incorrectly flagged their entire domain as deceptive for approximately six hours on September 25, 2025, causing aggressive warnings and blocks for users trying to access any site on the domain. The incident affected both the main domain and some custom domains hosted on their platform. The article serves as both an incident report and a critique of Google's dominant power over the internet.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledFor approximately six hours on 25.9.2025, the entire statichost.eu domain was flagged as deceptive by Google Safe Search.
This meant that anyone using Google Safe Search was shown a very aggressive warning or outright blocked when trying to access any site on the statichost.eu domain.
In some cases even custom domains hosted on the statichost.eu platform were affected.
This post is part incident report and part privacy (and monopoly) rant.
Google has too much power over the Internet.
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