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Fraudulently pretending to be a trusted authority (trusted enough to click a download link clears the bar) is sufficient to get flagged as Social Engineering, under the deceptive content category, by Safe Browsing. See https://developers.google.com/search/docs/monitor-debug/secu...

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Ah, interesting, this is still under Safe Browsing, but it's distinct from the malware reporting that the blog post directs people to. Reports for this would get the site classed as deceptive (which it sounds like it is), but not for malware distribution. That sounds like a good option, perhaps the best option for the Notepad++ blog post to direct people to.

Fortunately/unfortunately I still can't load the site on any device or browser so I'm not actually sure what it looks like or how obvious it is.

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