Maybe it used to be that easy, but it's not anymore. Google takes that shit Very seriously and will manually investigate any website
when reported to their system, it's happened to me a few times with my own websites over the past 12 years when malicious code had been injected into my ad script by corrupt advertisers. Google will not just label a site malicious unless they truly believe that something is up.
I just think it's a little off putting to the regular Joe Shmoe when we tell him to use
www.imgcredit.xyz and when he goes there Google is telling him the website that WE referred him to could possibly install dangerous programs on his computer and try to steal his information. It makes US look bad for referring it.
Also if we say that
all allowed image hosts must only have 1 pop per user per 24/hours, they ALL need to adhere. Why have rules and regulations when we're not going to enforce them or enforce them on some and not others. Might as well not have any rules at all.
And I emailed him about it kindly asking for him to fix both issues, I'll report back if he gets back to me. If not, I vote we remove it until he notices that we removed him and fixes the issue(s) OR we remove any and all rules and regulations for image hosts, because enforcing some and not all is ridiculous.