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Help HN: Google just blocked my site as deceptive site

I run a website called Uploader window (www.uploader.win) that helps users to add an upload widget to their own apps or websites.

This morning I got a message from google that my site has been blocked for being Deceptive and it has listed my homepage as the deceptive URL. Anybody who will open the site gets a big red screen with a warning.

I've checked the source code by hand and everything I could check and I can't find any reason for hack or any security issues.

The only possible reason I can think off is we have a demo on our homepage which allows users to upload test files to try out the uploader and we offer a 20MB test space to help users during development. All test files are deleted after 24 hours. I have also disabled both these features since. But Google didn't say if this was the cause.

I've submitted a review to Google but not sure how long it will take.

We have a paying customers and all sites which have our script are now showing this warning too.

I am feeling super helpless and super scared how this is going to affect them.

Do you know of any way I can expidite the review? Any thing you can suggest to help me?

40 points uploaderwin 5 years ago 21 comments

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