Originally Posted by nico-t

horrible advice. You are doing googles job. Google is smart enough to not let those domains count. I've experienced this first hand. Some sites of mine were hit hard some time ago, and even i hesitated 'should i use the disavow tool'? I never did and eventually my sites came back.

That tool is there to take advantage of desperate webmasters.

Leave it. Hang in there. Google doesn't need you to report sites, they use you.

Keep building and don't ever get in that luring bed with the devil