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Re:Google Safe Browsing is blocking small Mastodon servers by sneak on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @04:00AM (#33528926)
This list needs to be redownloaded multiple times daily by a billion or so devices.
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Re:Google Safe Browsing is blocking small Mastodon servers by kccqzy on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @05:01PM (#33538577)
A billion is about half an order of magnitude off. The official homepage says five billion.

https://safebrowsing.google.com/

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Re:Google Safe Browsing is blocking small Mastodon servers by sneak on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:12PM (#33540229)
It's terrifying that a small change at a single URL controlled by a single national government can censor content on five billion machines.

Is there anything else on the entire internet so centralized?

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Re:Google Safe Browsing is blocking small Mastodon servers by kccqzy on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:50PM (#33540618)
The root DNS, or DNS for "com"
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