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indeed... it seems like it just says everything is phishing... which they go on to say is desirable?

"The tradeoff is that it flagged all 9 of the legitimate sites in our dataset as suspicious, which is worth it when you're actively investigating a link you don't trust."

so, you dont really need the scanning product at all. if you just assume every website is a phishing website, you will have the same performance as the scanner!

Yeah probably could have done better at describing the methodology. The dataset is just the confirmed (manually by a human) phishing urls. We only included the FPs to show that the tooling isn't perfect there were many TNs that we did not include. Going forward we could definitely frame these results better.

lol, return false;