Bit.ly and Del.icio.us flagged as malware by Google
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Google has flagged Bit.ly and Del.icio.us as malware, you can read the article here.
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Good to know, don't be linking to them!
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Yep...don't want to be dragged down by association!
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While I understand the need for things like Bit.ly - have you ever really trusted the URL shortening service?
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@Dashrender nope...haven't used them either.
I have a plugin that monitors links and it is disappointing enough to have an IT website arbitrarily change site links when revamping a site and not providing a redirect, thus the page disappears. Stupid.
As far as I know there is no fall back for URL shortening services. If they go belly up or become blocked by malware, all those links are now useless. Someone has to go and fix all the links, however you can't fix links that are on printed material or other people's websites.
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it's unfortunate that bad/evil things always seem to come with convenience.
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Interesting. Good to know.
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@Dashrender so true!
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@technobabble said:
@Dashrender nope...haven't used them either.
I have a plugin that monitors links and it is disappointing enough to have an IT website arbitrarily change site links when revamping a site and not providing a redirect, thus the page disappears. Stupid.
As far as I know there is no fall back for URL shortening services. If they go belly up or become blocked by malware, all those links are now useless. Someone has to go and fix all the links, however you can't fix links that are on printed material or other people's websites.
URL shortening sites are just a problem because they don't validate anything. All it is is a short URL. So it is completely open to maliciousness.
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Not really surprising. Makes sense. A lot of malware sites are hidden behind those links.
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@Dashrender said:
While I understand the need for things like Bit.ly - have you ever really trusted the URL shortening service?
Nope. That's why I use a link decoder and then feed the results into URLquery.net.
The short URL decoder seems to be a short URL. Ironic really. However, I can't find what the actual domain is. -
@nadnerB said:
@Dashrender said:
While I understand the need for things like Bit.ly - have you ever really trusted the URL shortening service?
Nope. That's why I use a link decoder and then feed the results into URLquery.net.
The short URL decoder seems to be a short URL. Ironic really. However, I can't find what the actual domain is.Odd, you would think you could put the short URL directly into URLquery and see the end result.
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@Dashrender Yes, that can be done.
I use it this way because URLquery can, subjectively speaking, take a while if there are a lot of relay links (I found one site that had over 500 calls to other sites just by following one link), so I start by decoding the short URL to check where it's going. If I've never heard of it or I'm still suspicious, then it's off to URLquery.
