Re: [SCRIPT] Generate SHA256SUM files for the mirror
Clinton Bunch <[email protected]>
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On 4/22/2026 22:03, dana wrote: > On Mon 20 Apr 2026, at 22:37, Clinton Bunch wrote: >> The browser gods have gotten very aggressive with the red badge of death >> lately and from what I understand find MD5SUM files by themselves >> suspicious as they do software mirrors in general. > i don't understand, what are you referring to? why would browsers care > about MD5SUM files? > > dana The browser police have gotten very strict and corporate oriented they flag things as phishing or malware very easily nowadays and one of their red flags is an absence of modern chksums and when they do they put up big red blocking pages. I've been trying to un-blacklist my personal website for about a week. Finally convinced google that my alias manager and web mail weren't phishing sites. Still working on some of the others. They also don't like bare apache auto index pages. Apparently they've decided a 1000 false positives of broke independent operators is better than one false negative victim with a lawyer.