Pain point · Reliability & bugs · Causes churn
Site flagged as distributing malware after installing Matomo, vanished from search
3 source threads · first seen 2020-07 · last seen 2021-06
Summary
A user running Matomo on a WordPress blog had the site flagged as malware and dropped from search results. Getting unflagged required filling out a form with Microsoft, so they took the site offline.
- Affects
- Small site owner
Evidence
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“The OP cannot use AdSense because his Matomo integration was flagged as "malicious”
“for some reason it led to my site being flagged as distributing malware and I vanished from search engines”
“Curiously, matomo analytics, a more privacy friendly competitor, keeps getting blacklisted by Edge for distributing malware”