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Safari "Deceptive Website" warning on two of my legitimate sites — Google Safe Browsing is clean. How to get removed?
Two unrelated, legitimate websites I own are both shown as "Deceptive Website — Apple has identified this website as fraudulent" in Safari (iOS + macOS), and even inside my installed PWA on iOS. This is a false positive and I can't find a working way to get Apple to remove it. Why I'm confident it's a false positive: Google Safe Browsing site status: clean Google Search Console (verified owner) > Security Issues: none Yandex Webmaster > Security: no violations VirusTotal: 0/92 detections Chrome, Firefox, Yandex Browser: NO warning on any platform Only Safari shows it, wording is "Apple has identified..." — i.e. Apple's own list, not the Google Safe Browsing feed The sites are genuinely benign: no brand impersonation, no third-party credential harvesting, no malware, no drive-by downloads. The interesting part — it's TWO unrelated sites: Site A: a small web app (SaaS with a login form) Site B: my personal developer portfolio — static, no login at all They share almost nothing: different codebase, different design, different hosting (Site A is behind Cloudflare with a Google Trust Services edge cert; Site B is a plain nginx box with a Let's Encrypt cert), different TLS issuers, different stacks. The ONLY common denominator is me as the owner/registrant (same person, same contact email, same registrar account). This makes me think the domains were clustered by registrant/owner rather than by anything on the sites themselves. The two-sites fact also rules out the usual scapegoats: it isn't Cloudflare (Site B isn't even on Cloudflare and is flagged too), nor the cert issuer, host, or stack, since those differ. What I've already done: Clicked "Report an error" on the Safari warning page Submitted the Google Safe Browsing incorrect-warning report Filed a tracked report in Feedback Assistant (FB number, status Open) Hardened both sites anyway: CSP + security headers, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and real trust pages (About with owner identity + contact, Privacy Policy, Terms, linked from homepage and login page) It's been about a week with no response. My questions: When Google Safe Browsing is clean but Safari still flags, what feeds Apple's OWN fraudulent-site list? Is registrant/owner clustering a real mechanism here? Which removal channel actually works in practice? Realistic timeline for a false-positive removal? If one domain is cleared, does that clear the owner-level association for the other, or do I appeal each separately? Is there anything that re-triggers it? (Considering a domain migration as a last resort and want to avoid a new domain getting re-flagged.) Any first-hand experience is appreciated — the process is completely opaque.
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Safari "Deceptive Website" warning on two of my legitimate sites — Google Safe Browsing is clean. How to get removed?
Two unrelated, legitimate websites I own are both shown as "Deceptive Website — Apple has identified this website as fraudulent" in Safari (iOS + macOS), and even inside my installed PWA on iOS. This is a false positive and I can't find a working way to get Apple to remove it. Why I'm confident it's a false positive: Google Safe Browsing site status: clean Google Search Console (verified owner) > Security Issues: none Yandex Webmaster > Security: no violations VirusTotal: 0/92 detections Chrome, Firefox, Yandex Browser: NO warning on any platform Only Safari shows it, wording is "Apple has identified..." — i.e. Apple's own list, not the Google Safe Browsing feed The sites are genuinely benign: no brand impersonation, no third-party credential harvesting, no malware, no drive-by downloads. The interesting part — it's TWO unrelated sites: Site A: a small web app (SaaS with a login form) Site B: my personal developer portfolio — static, no login at all They share almost nothing: different codebase, different design, different hosting (Site A is behind Cloudflare with a Google Trust Services edge cert; Site B is a plain nginx box with a Let's Encrypt cert), different TLS issuers, different stacks. The ONLY common denominator is me as the owner/registrant (same person, same contact email, same registrar account). This makes me think the domains were clustered by registrant/owner rather than by anything on the sites themselves. The two-sites fact also rules out the usual scapegoats: it isn't Cloudflare (Site B isn't even on Cloudflare and is flagged too), nor the cert issuer, host, or stack, since those differ. What I've already done: Clicked "Report an error" on the Safari warning page Submitted the Google Safe Browsing incorrect-warning report Filed a tracked report in Feedback Assistant (FB number, status Open) Hardened both sites anyway: CSP + security headers, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and real trust pages (About with owner identity + contact, Privacy Policy, Terms, linked from homepage and login page) It's been about a week with no response. My questions: When Google Safe Browsing is clean but Safari still flags, what feeds Apple's OWN fraudulent-site list? Is registrant/owner clustering a real mechanism here? Which removal channel actually works in practice? Realistic timeline for a false-positive removal? If one domain is cleared, does that clear the owner-level association for the other, or do I appeal each separately? Is there anything that re-triggers it? (Considering a domain migration as a last resort and want to avoid a new domain getting re-flagged.) Any first-hand experience is appreciated — the process is completely opaque.
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