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by tholman 1440 days ago
Am thinking that a few of the domains on the list expired and were snapped up by malware/scammer sites causing the spreadsheet to seem super sus to a machine scanning/checking urls.
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If this were the case, then the reason for flagging should be fully disclosed in a transparent fashion to the end-user, with specific details.

Otherwise it's super confusing to have the entire document be marked "suspicious", and end-user may reasonably (naively) still paste and visit the link. When this happens, the entire effort to keep them safe is subverted by Google's own poor design.

Only a dumb detective will reveal how they caught the thief
Sometimes the ones who need protection are even dumber than the thieves. Where does this leave us?
this is usually the case when these posts pop up, yep.