Immich Is a "dangerous Site"
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It links though to a blog post, but there are users in the Reddit thread claiming the same issue with various self-hosted services. The blog post is here:
https://immich.app/blog/google-flags-immich-as-dangerous
I spent about 4 hours trying to figure out if I had a compromised service before I realized it's a lazy false positive. Does anyone know where I send the bill for my time? Lol.
The immich.cloud domain should be added to the Public Suffix List, which is the industry solution for this situation of user-controlled subdomains.
https://publicsuffix.org/
https://icannwiki.org/Public_Suffix_List
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List