Google publishes page titled "Unwanted Software Policy" " which lists a set of criteria Google demands everyone follow or Google will "take steps".
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byuu, the developer of bsnes, reports that files remain classified as "harmful content" even if Google does a manual review and finds the file to be harmless and legitimate. the common phrase would be "proven innocent" - but there does not appear to be any clear way of doing that. Files not published by a large "approved" corporation are classified as malware by default as of December 2019 - executable files are apparently guilty until. Google classifying "uncommon" files has "harmful" is problematic.
Any freshly compiled executable will, naturally, be uncommon. The criteria for claiming the Windows version of the bsnes SNES emulator is "harmful", is, apparently, that it is "Uncommon".
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This is a problem for free software developers, shareware developers and anyone else posting their own software on the Internet for that matter. Google was adding sites offering "Uncommon" files as "harmful" as of December 2019. If the URLs are checked against a locally stored blacklist which is updated regularly or a online API does matter. Google has a table of hashes and URLs which means that they can look up any hash you submit and plainly see the URL and it makes no difference which one you submit. Wikipedia story regarding hashes "preserving privacy" may sound reasonable to non-technical people but it is laughable from a technical perspective. Wikipedia story about Safe Browsing safety Wikipedia story as of October 2019 is that Which is used makes no difference when it comes to privacy implications.
Some browsers and devices submit the URL as plain text, others submit a hash. URLs matching the local blacklist are therefore checked against the online API in order to verify if the page is actually blacklisted or not.
The URLs in the blacklist are hashed and stripped down to the first 32 bits of those hashes. The browsers who download blacklist snapshots and check against that locally stored blacklist will still make requests to the online API on a regular basis. Some browsers download a blacklist regularly and check against that locally, others will send every web requests to Googles safebrowsing API. Most Web browsers and devices with "Safe Browsing" enabled will report every single web page you visit to Google.
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