Firstly, I’d like to thank the people who have already submitted responses to the Modernity Worldview Survey. I’ll post that you submitted entries before this warning was presented.
UPDATE: Crisis Averted
Google has taken action and very responsively removed this warning. If you saw this whilst attempting to visit the URL, try again. Sorry for any fright or inconvenience. I’ll continue as if this never happened. smh
I am frustrated to say the least. I created this survey over the past month or so, writing, rewriting, refactoring, and switching technology and hosts until I settled on Google Cloud (GCP). It worked fine yesterday. When I visited today, I saw this warning.
As I mentioned in my announcement post, I collect no personal information. I don’t even ask for an email address, let alone a credit card number. On a technical note, this is the information I use:
id autogenerated unique identifier
timestamp date and time stamp of record creation (UTC)
question-response which response option made per question
ternary-triplet the position of the average modernity score (pre, mod, post)
plot_x Cartesian x-axis plot point for the ternary chart
plot_y Cartesian y-axis plot point for the ternary chart
session_id facilitates continuity for a user's browser experience
browser* which browser being used (Chrome, Safari, and so on)
region browser's language setting (US, GB, FR)
source whether the user is accessing from the web or 'locally'
('local' indicates a test record, so i can filter them out)
* These examples illustrate the colected browser information:
- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
- Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36
This is all.
This is a Chrome Warning. Ironically, a Google product. I tested this on Opera, Edge, and Safari without this nonsense.
The front end (UI) is written in HTML, Python, JavaScript, and React with some standard imports. The backend (database) is MySQL. It is version-controlled on GitHub and entirely hosted on GCP. I link to the survey from here (WordPress) or other social media presences. I did make the mistake of not making the site responsive. I paid the price when I visited the site on my Samsung S24. The page felt like the size of a postage stamp. I may fix this once this security issue is resolved.
I sent Google a request to remove this from their blacklist. This could take three weeks, more or less.
Meantime, I’ll pause survey promotions and hope this resolves quickly. The survey will remain live. If you use something other than Chrome, you should be able to take it. Obviously, I’ll also delay analysing and releasing any summary results.
Apologies for rambling. Thank you for your patience.
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