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Blogger - what happened?

Okay, so for the dozens of you out there who do follow my blog on a fairly regular basis, I feel like I do owe you some explanation about what happened... as far as I can tell. Randomly, out of the blue, Tuesday, August 4th about 2pm EDT I got this email from Google's Blogger team: I freaked the F out.  I had JUST published a post, was it something in that post?  Was it an old post... maybe we posted a link to somewhere and that is now a malicious site?  (there had been situations in the past that we had linked to files that you couldn't get on the Play Store and we had takedown notices for those links) I was just unsure - there was an option to file an appeal so I did that quickly. But I started to reach out.  Any Google contact I had, checked the help forum, posted on Reddit and Imgur.  It's then that I learned that this wasn't just me.  Hundreds were posting - all saying they got the exact same notice, and all within a few minutes of 2pm. It was starting...

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