--- title: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous | daily.dev description: Immich, an open-source Google Photos alternative, had all their *.immich.cloud websites flagged as dangerous by Google Safe Browsing, making them inaccessible... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/google-flags-immich-sites-as-dangerous-sehiugbra twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous | daily.dev og:description: Immich, an open-source Google Photos alternative, had all their *.immich.cloud websites flagged as dangerous by Google Safe Browsing, making them inaccessible... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/google-flags-immich-sites-as-dangerous-sehiugbra og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sehIuGbRA.png og:image:alt: Google flags Immich sites as dangerous og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Google flags Immich sites as dangerous **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 5 min read · 23 upvotes · 5 comments ## Summary Immich, an open-source Google Photos alternative, had all their *.immich.cloud websites flagged as dangerous by Google Safe Browsing, making them inaccessible to users. The issue stemmed from Google's automated system crawling their preview environments on GitHub and marking them as deceptive, despite being legitimate internal deployments. Each time a new preview environment was created, the entire domain was re-flagged. The team had to repeatedly request reviews through Google Search Console and ultimately decided to move preview environments to a separate domain (immich.build) to minimize impact. The incident highlights how Google Safe Browsing can arbitrarily flag domains without consideration for open-source or self-hosted software workflows. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@theacademe** · 6 upvotes > It appears there is a need for an open source alternative to the Google Safe Browsing service. **@akkitto** · 5 upvotes > What a surprise, Google is always flagging its competitors. Pure coincident. 🤔 **@fabianletsch** · 2 upvotes > It seems like these internet giants might be too powerful... just an idea. **@fabianletsch** · 0 upvotes > Same thing happened to netlify alternative statichost.eu: > > https://www.statichost.eu/blog/google-safe-browsing/ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Immich has a hidden feature you're not using, and it changed the way I share photos with family](https://daily.dev/posts/immich-has-a-hidden-feature-you-re-not-using-and-it-changed-the-way-i-share-photos-with-family-ziawhpdqs) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Google Safe Browsing incident](https://daily.dev/posts/google-safe-browsing-incident-txwfsh2lo) · Hacker News · 2 upvotes · 1 comments - [I ditched Google Photos for Immich, but one feature pulled me back after a month](https://daily.dev/posts/i-ditched-google-photos-for-immich-but-one-feature-pulled-me-back-after-a-month-1j4piljxo) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#google](https://daily.dev/tags/google) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/google-flags-immich-sites-as-dangerous-sehiugbra) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Google flags Immich sites as dangerous","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/google-flags-immich-sites-as-dangerous-sehiugbra","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/google-flags-immich-sites-as-dangerous-sehiugbra"},"datePublished":"2025-10-23T00:37:24.010Z","dateModified":"2025-10-23T00:37:48.418Z","description":"Immich, an open-source Google Photos alternative, had all their *.immich.cloud websites flagged as dangerous by Google Safe Browsing, making them inaccessible...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/f285d832d18e83573fa7315f74802058?_a=AQAEulh","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/f285d832d18e83573fa7315f74802058?_a=AQAEulh","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":5,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/google-flags-immich-sites-as-dangerous-sehiugbra","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":23},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":5}],"keywords":"security,devops,open-source,google","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/google-flags-immich-sites-as-dangerous-sehiugbra","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"It appears there is a need for an open source alternative to the Google Safe Browsing service.","datePublished":"2025-10-23T05:32:45.550Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/sehIuGbRA#c-RhETYJ6Hm","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"theacademe","url":"https://daily.dev/theacademe","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--C29_q-xW--/f_auto/v1756852849/avatars/avatar_wNAjl1VBaVx2CCjbkkb5h?_a=BAMClqZW0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":6}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"What a surprise, Google is always flagging its competitors. 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