There's one article every day on "How I changed my life by switching to firefox and duckduckgo"...Surely you could read one of those and use firefox to browser the compromised website?

the "I'm being persecuted by google" schtick is getting old.

Firefox uses the same "safe browsing" centralized censorship service from Google. Using a different browser doesn't solve this problem.

Is antivirus censorship?

Are you a malware author that has been victimised by the Safebrowsing list or know of a legitimate site that has been affected?

Or have you made up a hypothetical and decided to get angry about that?

SafeBrowsing blocked redbean downloads for a day (https://justine.lol/redbean/index.html) and it was the #3 top Show HN story of all time. Google put a real chill down my spine when they did that to me, not being able to download files from my own website.

In my experience, this has become increasingly common when distributing software that isn't signed.

I don't sign my software due to privacy concerns, and it regularly gets bogus detections on VirusTotal and Google's similar systems that flow into Safe Browsing.

Mostly from Norton and BitDefender, who are notorious for not replying to any inquiries/submissions. AV is a complete ripoff nowadays and downright malware (coming from someone that had to cancel an accidental Norton subscription for his usually technically sufficient parents, it's a maze of broken support pages and infinite redirects between different language versions).

It happens to software that's signed too, according to folks on my issue tracker. What I do now is just upload the binaries to VirusTotal and click the upvote button, before I put them on my website, so that people can double-check they came from me.

Not op, but just recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802366