This is what happens when you give too much power to one company.
What happens? Is it bad that that Google protects users from malware and notifies webmasters that their website was compromised?
What happens? Is it bad that that Google protects users from malware and notifies webmasters that their website was compromised?
1. Google is blocking access to the site in Chrome.
2. Firefox is warning users that php.net is not to be trusted (it uses the same list of infected sites provided by Google).
3. Google is warning users on Google Search that "This site may harm your computer.".
4. Google's appeals process is slow and cumbersome.
So yeah, that is a lot of power for one company.
If this happened to your website due to, for example a false positive, you would be pretty unhappy. Only a high profile project like PHP gets this kind of attention, but I'd happily wager that many smaller websites suffer the same faith every day.
And after that, it forces the owners of the site to register with Google and use Google services just to even figure out why, and to get their sites unflagged. And that is after the owner even figured out how and where to contact Google.
They don't force anyone to sign up. If you do nothing other than fixing your website, eventually Google will check it again and remove from blacklist.
Seriously, what's your complaint? If you don't want to get blacklisted, don't let your site be hacked. If your site is hacked, and you're complaining that Google blacklisted it and notified you about it, you're dumb.
And guess what -- they provide this service (and also pay the real person to review your re-listing request) for FREE.
>And after that, it forces the owners of the site to register with Google and use Google services just to even figure out why, and to get their sites unflagged.
Google forces you to prove that you own the domain before they give you any information that they don't release publicly. How else do you suggest they go about not releasing everything publicly? Also, all you have to do as a site owner is click on the safe browsing diagnostic link and go from there.