Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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Blog Google flags Immich sites as dangerous Google flags Immich sites as dangerous October 20, 2025 — Jason Rasmussen Earlier this month all of our *.immich.cloud websites were marked as dangerous and users started being shown the dreaded "red-screen-of-death" page. No one on the team really understood how this browser feature worked, but it's now, unfortunately, been added to our list of Cursed Knowledge . Background Google offers a service called Safe Browsing , which aims to determine if a site is running malware, unwanted software, or performs some form of social engineering. The service is free, and many browsers, including Chrome & Firefox, directly integrate the service into their products, although it is still a bit unclear how it actually determines if something is "dangerous". So, what happens if your site is marked as dangerous? Well, since most browsers seem to use this service, your site essentially becomes unavailable for all users, except the few that might realize it's a false positive, click the Details button, and then see and click the tiny, underlined "visit this safe site" link. So basically it becomes unavailable for your entire audience with little apparent recourse. Being flagged At some point earlier this month, we realized that a bunch of sites on the immich.cloud domain had recently started showing up as "dangerous". At the same time, a few users started complaining about their own Immich deployments being flagged. We also noticed that all our own internal sites had the same warning, including our preview environments. It got old real fast to have to go through the tedious effort to "view this safe site" whenever we wanted to view anything. Search Console After a few days we realized this warning was not going to go away on its own, and that the Google Search Console was apparently the official way to manage these types of issues. It seems a bit crazy that the only way to make our site available again was to create a Google account, and us...