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by midenginedcoupe 652 days ago
A friendly word of warning - I also re-implemented the GOV.UK design system for my form builder SaaS and stood up a demo form showing off the components in a real multi-step form. All the questions were literally "This is question 1" and "This is what a radio group question with a heading looks like" but Google's bots eventually found it and flagged my entire domain on the phishing lists because it thought it was trying to impersonate a real government service. It was an utter shit-show trying to get Google to undo their stupidity, all whilst my customers couldn't access their services.

I put up a dumb password prompt at the start of the journey (with the password given on the page) and haven't been flagged again since :fingerscrossed:

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Oof, thanks, I'll bear that in mind! The docs page has been up for a year or so without any issues but if I put up a more fully-featured demo I'll be careful