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- jimmick, on 05/10/2008, -7/+396Someone's bitter about being Rick Rolled
- owencm, on 05/10/2008, -15/+187Welcome to the world of CENSORSHIP!
So who's up for a horde of angry emails to Microsoft?
I'm writing one now :D - owencm, on 05/10/2008, -4/+172URL for complaints: https://feedback.live.com/default.aspx?productkey= ...
Digg! Unite! Complain! :) - YAOMTC, on 05/10/2008, -10/+124I can confirm this. I'm connected to MSN through Pidgin on Ubuntu, so I can assure you, it's not a client issue.
Yet another reason that I like AIM better. Character formatting, more reliable connection, embedded profiles... and now there's this. Sure, it's not the *best* protocol out there, necessarily, but in my opinion, it's the best option out of those that are widely used. - Totov, on 05/10/2008, -14/+120Perfect timing for an open-source/standards messenger service to get some notice.
***** censorship in any form.. and ***** Microsoft. - novemberdobby, on 05/10/2008, -4/+102Youtube, Deviantart, Googlepages, Mediafire, and eBuddy are all blocked.
- NathanCH, on 05/10/2008, -3/+84You've missed the point entirely.
- meririm, on 05/10/2008, -0/+75It's not just youtube. Deviantart.com, googlepages.com and xanga are also affected. -_- Anyone found other urls?
- gfxluvr, on 05/10/2008, -6/+71Me thinks Microsoft is sour, because they couldn't buy Youtube, before Google could..
- euro22, on 12/17/2008, -1/+64It's really easy switching when you don't have any friends...
- Myonosken, on 05/10/2008, -4/+62Maybe because its the most popular network in the UK, so its kind of essential if your mates aren't all geeky.
- MisterFreeze, on 05/10/2008, -14/+74Why don't you just dump Messenger? It's a ***** piece of ***** anyway.
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……................f`-,………`-,/…*-,___,,-~*….,-*……|…`-,……….……. - BlueSkyfish, on 05/10/2008, -2/+44Microsoft doesn't own them.
- Planets, on 05/10/2008, -4/+45Strange, they work fine for me.
- CaptO, on 05/10/2008, -3/+38Um duh, digg it down - YouTube is owned by Google.
*headdesk* - terrablebyte, on 05/10/2008, -2/+36Good luck getting all your friends to dump it aswell.
- atomical, on 05/10/2008, -12/+54I'm about to boycott MSN and start using AIM. I suggest people to do the same.
- Corrosionx, on 05/10/2008, -2/+35But then it's not really a link, is it?
- krystalo, on 05/10/2008, -2/+31It's fixed. Just in time to hit Digg's front page.
- canthraxp, on 05/10/2008, -2/+33For the record, msn censores some words like
gallery.php
download.php
.info
*Edit, found a full list: http://londoncommons.net/node/2924
Maybe this measures are for security, but this kind of security (censoring your whole message) it's pretty dumb, it could add the link in red and say something like "INSECURE WEBSITE!" with a warning sign or something.
And the other protection of sending a certain file and the file gets deleted without prompt also sucks. - neFariou5, on 05/10/2008, -3/+29Why are you panicking so much about some comment you stole from the linked forum?
- PhoenixAvatar2, on 05/10/2008, -7/+32Good god you're an idiot.
- Sil369, on 05/10/2008, -1/+26What's their connection...? o_o
*x-files theme plays* - KloroFormd, on 05/10/2008, -0/+22*facepalm*
Trillian doesn't have a protocol of it's own. You're still using other services and as people have said, it's not a client issue. - katyra, on 05/10/2008, -1/+23I first noticed when I couldn't send deviantart links to a friend who couldn't send youtube links. Apparently xanga doesn't work either.
- Gerbil_Juice, on 05/10/2008, -0/+23It's hard to switch when everyone around here uses MSN.
- vaterite, on 05/10/2008, -2/+21welcome to the anti-social
- mateusap, on 05/10/2008, -0/+18Here too
- Hexxeh, on 05/10/2008, -1/+19Fix available here: http://digg.com/microsoft/Youtube_Censor_Bypass_fo ...
- 4DFX, on 05/10/2008, -1/+18DeviantART links too
- Hangly, on 05/10/2008, -2/+19Don't send it via hotmail or it'll never get there.
- jparkinson, on 05/10/2008, -1/+17Except for when you want to chat with someone who isn't a geek...
I love IRC too, but it is in no way as practical as MSN - AutomaticTLC, on 05/10/2008, -5/+20This is Microsoft. They will get a promotion.
- gweedo767, on 05/10/2008, -1/+16Jabber is that. gTalk is even based on Jabber, so you can start there.
- PL3NTY, on 05/10/2008, -1/+16ten points go to you
- inactive, on 05/10/2008, -1/+14Nice try.
- 4DFX, on 05/10/2008, -1/+16Ah, sorry didn't notice this has been said already.
Anyway I hope Google sues Microsoft's ass for this. - tayf, on 05/11/2008, -1/+14Props to whoever Rick Rolled Steve Ballmer.
- OpticalLiam, on 05/10/2008, -1/+14Actually you can get around it by simply putting the URL in quotes into MSN and it comes out as a clickable link on the other end still.
i.e. "http://www.youtube.com" - with the quotes ofcourse.
Also, they're blocking URLs from a bunch of other sites including DeviantArt and Google Pages. A list of the phrases they block is here:
http://www.allocinit.net/blog/2007/08/07/the-actua ... - Jacksteruk309, on 05/10/2008, -0/+12Messages with a youtube URL were being blocked for me but now they seem to be working again.
- eliza27, on 05/10/2008, -1/+13i already sent one too :D
- iruber1337, on 05/10/2008, -0/+12It's not the program...the people you talk to are simply dolts.
- haxmire, on 05/10/2008, -1/+14works 100% fine for me. I think they got it reversed.
- xaeon, on 05/10/2008, -1/+14For both the normal version of MSN Messenger Live (Version 8.1 with Messenger Live Plus on XP) and Pidgin (on Ubuntu Gutsy), I don't see this problem at all. I'm in the UK so would that have anything to do with it? Hmm.
- DeathfireD, on 05/10/2008, -1/+13both http://www.youtube.com and http://youtube.com work now for me. I use GAIM. The urls where not working earlier in the day but now work just fine. Looks like MSN staff got their ass chewed out.
- elektriknoizz, on 05/10/2008, -6/+19Because you can never be told the same thing enough.
- inactive, on 05/10/2008, -4/+17http://www.betadaily.com/2008/05/10/microsoft-star ...
"This block seems to be related to the recent launch of Messenger TV in 20 countries which allows for sharing video clips from MSN Video on messenger."
This is why it isn't affecting me in the UK and many other countries. - inactive, on 05/10/2008, -1/+12EDIT: Nevermind, I'm an idiot.
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