Microsoft bans TinyURL links from instant messages

[xxMATTGxx]

Every few weeks we see a another, perfectly safe domain name getting blocked by Messenger's annoying and above all ineffecient server-side SPIM filter. Today's victim is TinyURL, a popular URL-shortening service that gets over 1.5 billion hits each month. Messages containing a TinyURL link won't get passed the evil filter.

Getting this out to the world, Microsoft will hopefully kick the *** of the third party managing the list of blocked domains and undo the blunder.

- Taken from Mess.be -

*** = You know what ;]

[Leetzgirl]

i think habbox filtered it as well.

[xxMATTGxx]

i think habbox filtered it as well.

Yeah I changed the post

[Leetzgirl]

just wondering

what url did they ban?

getting confuse

Edited by Kaotix12 (Forum Super Moderator): Accidental double post merged.

[xxMATTGxx]

just wondering

what url did they ban?

getting confuse

The TinyURL links. When you make a long link into one of them tiny links with a .com at the end and /some random letters etc. They have banned them.

[Technologic]

Well if we see anything like what happpened with youtube this will be gone by next week

[Pyroka]

All www. websites have been banned for me tbh, I can't even type www.youtube.com... Just says message couldnt be sent, so I just say youtube.com and it works.

[xxMATTGxx]

This has been lifted by the way.

[Technologic]

This has been lifted by the way.

Told you so

[Titch]

i am confused, they banned it from msn?