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As far as I understand and what has been discussed in other posts, no, there is no way to prevent this.

As you noticed, Itch does not inform you if your game is quarantined, so uploading it privately first would not do you any good, because you would not know if the game was approved or not.

Also, not knowing the algorithm, we also do not know if it is influenced by users, for example, a sudden increase in downloads, maybe a group of people reported it, etc.

I understand how frustrating it is if you are a legitimate developer, but without data from Itch I cannot say if the measures are good or bad.
I assume that they do not inform you to prevent bad actors from automating processes that seek to break Itch's system and I assume that the cases of false positives will be a small number compared to the benefit they bring.

Page is finally back ! Thank you very much for your answers.

Really wish there was a way to prevent this, I guess I'll just have to pray that each new update goes fine now (or just not update recently released games at all).

While the automated checks are secret like hechelion said, please make sure you follow the quality guidelines, in particular point 1: avoid publishing your page before it's ready. I suspect a lot of people get impatient, and it could be a reason why this keeps happening.

Maybe it was unclear, but the game was initially made for a game jam, so.......... It gets published when the deadline of the jam is reached (doesn't really have anything to do with impatience in my case).

I also recently got an answer to my ticket from the support, and apparently it could have been caused by the fact I had an other page of the same game with restricted access for private testing purposes ? I  am not totally sure, tho. Either way, the sanction from the algorithm was a bit disproportionate compared to the reason it got flagged in the first place. If I can suggest an idea, having different degrees of flagging before putting a page in quarantine  could be a better solution ?

There is a different degree. Being not indexed.