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- Aleks, on 10/10/2007, -9/+94Can we all please censor MSN?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+50All the while, ASP still goes happily right on through...
- drgmdp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28that's what tinyurl was made for
- fmorel90, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28I guess they just filter stuff with ".info" in them, which is why www.misinformation.com passed.
- bairy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+27Messenger is a pain. I can't send certain filetypes because msn assumes it's a virus, and if I recieve them and try and open them from messenger it deletes them from my system.
I don't mind the safety concern, but there needs to be a "stop interfering I'm competent" option. - deathscythe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26januARY ANd february
- boredzo, on 10/10/2007, -4/+28I've added to the Adium wiki a list of strings that will cause a message to be dropped:
http://adiumx.com/faq/MSNCensorship
It's probably not complete yet, though I imagine most of them are filenames of the sort “something.php” or “something.php?”. (OTOH, not just *any* .php filename will do it. It only filters certain ones.) - skelterskelter, on 10/10/2007, -3/+25did you just manage to post your website in a worthless comment without anyone noticing?
- simra, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17I suspect they are actually filtering .inf file extensions. The curse of three-character file extensions- in ms-land all the rest are redundant.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16it's not just the top-level domain, the following didn't pass:
www.information.com (www.misinformation did pass though :D )
www.info.com
www.info.net
...
retarded! - Yareking, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13"To get round the filter and succesfully send your hyperlinks to .info websites through Messenger anyway. Just replace .info with .%69nfo.
For instance: http://www.flashback.%69nfo"
mess.be real msn news... Ok bury me im ready - ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14I hope that was sarcasm...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Not MSN Messenger, specifically, but using Microsoft's crappy MySpace-like MSN Profile pages or whatever they call them, you can't say (for example) the following: "January and February." I'll give you three guesses as to why (it's incredibly stupid).
- meez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12"This affects all clients, including Adium and Pidgin"
RTFA... or at least read the description. - s1mph0ny, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11send the link to one of you msn friends?
- stalefries, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11certain URLs with ".php" in them get blocked. ASP is Microsoft's competitor with PHP. Both are server-side scripting languages.
- NikoKun, on 10/10/2007, -4/+15Yeah, just get a greasemonkey script that changes the word MSN into the comical microsoft equivalent of your choice.
- crazybrit, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Windows live messenger = MSN, for one thing. And I don't see how Yahoo! is any better.
- ricodued, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10ASP is a Microsoft server-side scripting product, much like PHP, although ASP has been replaced by ASP.NET.
- 256byteram, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8sending '.inf' to a friend got through, while '.info' doesn't.
- Kazenodeku, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10WLM is just a rebranding of MSNIM. Lurk moar.
- strangewill, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Seriously, people are trying to claim PHP conspiracy theories and anti-trust against companies at .info?
It's due to spam and MSN viruses, they usually come from download.php pages and such, yes it's a dumb way to protect users, but users are dumb in the first place.
Hopefully they'll just rip out the guts of that system and replace it with a "this may not be a secure page, sure you want to go here" message with links and such. - fantasticFlan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Blocking ary to block aryan?
- darkfate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Hmm. I just sent a .info domain url to someone and it went through fine. Unless it hasn't been implemented across all servers.
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8There is a sound reason for this. The .info domains were given away and gazillions of them were registered for the sole purpose of spam. Very few legitimate businesses use .info. Obviously their check is flawed if www.info*.* gets blocked though.
- boredzo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger are the same service. They simply changed the name.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/may06/05-08WLMessengerOpenPR.mspx
“The beta of Windows Live Messenger, which is **the next generation of MSN® Messenger**…” - boredzo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7The problem is using Firefox plug-ins in instant-messenger clients.
- deviouster, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8atleast its' a helpful..ish site
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -25/+32MS products should be avoided.
- darkyoshi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I see what you did there.
- ThreeDee912, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Probably they did that to try and prevent some type code interjection? Except they probably could have did that another way.
- flawlessjess, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9is anyone shocked by this at all
- joe90210, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9do people know what censorship actually means?
- Rezistik, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6that and sending goatse to people
- michaelschade, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8cen·sor·ship /ˈsɛnsərˌʃ
1. the act or practice of censoring.
2. the office or power of a censor.
3. the time during which a censor holds office.
4. the inhibiting and distorting activity of the Freudian censor.
[Origin: 1585–95; censor + -ship]
Citation: dictionary.com
(Sadly I had to look up half of the words in the definition to find out what the definition truly meant. Finding "sɛnsər" is tough.) - TenebrousX, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8he's the one who wrote the article, which you would have known if you had bothered to read it
- nubious, on 10/10/2007, -5/+11They Censor MP3's too.. If you receive an MP3 file transfer and then click the link within the chat window, it deletes the file saying it's potentially unsafe, whereas windows media files go through fine...
Proprietary Monopolization...
...Didn't they sign a deal with Digg? - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5"Be wary and alert." "We'll watch this documentary another night." Those would be rejected for the same reason.
- ChrisJP, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5you just have gallery.php on there, but other similar ones are
gal=
gallery=
are not sent. Also download= too. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8WINNER!!! Oh, Microsoft, you lovable little scamps. So, as you see, they have a history of retarded censorship!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5works fine with me 0,o
- darkyoshi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7colloquy.info
- ChrisJP, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5If that was sarcasm then it's already been done on this comments page. If serious then this article is true for WLM as well as the old MSN.
- ChrisJP, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5uhh... missed out: staff.php
Tried to link someone to a staff page on a website to show them some peoples contact details and realised he wasn't getting the link :/ - boredzo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Actually, I tried “.info” by itself, and that got blocked, too.
- DigitalJester, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6oooohh this is why I couldn't send 'whatsmyip.info' to a friend. I kept getting switchboard errors.
TIP: type an address like so, for it to get through: http://whatsmyip .info - 35263526, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Or, better yet, add another PHP-handled extension to httpd.conf and use that. No ASP-touching necessary.
- swrlyhrly, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Ok, im intrigued. Why?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4No, nothing that complicated. Think stupid.
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