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Yahoo Messenger Blocking youtube.com URLs?
wesleyye writes, "This morning I attempted to copy and paste a youtube.com URL to two of my friends via Yahoo IM. But they kept complaining they did not see anything. Actually they saw all the text message lines except the line with the youtube URL. Is YIM blocking the competitor out?" We verified in this office that a fully formed youtube.com URL could not be passed on YIM; changing the URL to read youtubex.com caused it to go through. Any other URL we tried worked. Update 10/10/2006 20:58 GMT by SM: Additional testing shows that there is something else going on for well formatted URLs. Even search results from search.yahoo.com had trouble when included with other text on the same line. Still awaiting comment from Yahoo!.
(yahoo guy in the back browsing slashdot at work)
Shit! *click* Whew.
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News from the future: "Yahoo! Messenger blocks links from slashdot.org"
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> either that or slashdot is seriously FOS
Welcome to Slashdot! So, how much did you pay on eBay for that four-digit ID? :)
They haven't blocked http://www.pornotube.com/ yet!
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Maybe due to malware, rather than Yahoo?
Wait -- there's a difference?
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I don't understand why Yahoo would do this. For heaven sake, stop already! I've had enough, the Slashdot community has had enough. We don't like it. From now on I'm not using Yahoo or Yahoo services again. Sites that conduct business like this are ruining the Internet, which, in-turn, is ruining my life. I don't want to go home. I don't like how they did this to us. I am getting ready to cancel my Yahoo mail. I hate Yahoo. I'm not going to ever use this shit again. I'm sorry for the yelling but I hate that shit. I'm done. This is my last post for now.
I then wonder what my 3 digit id would fetch. ;)
It is pretty incredible but they also do this with your personal passwords and others' passwords. Try it! It must be a new safety feature. You can IM your passwords and they just don't go through. It also works with Yahoo email!!!!!!11111one2
Have your friend start a blog, then post the "article" to slashdot anonymously. Seems to regularly work.
Hold on a minute. Since when did Yahoo become Yahoo-China?
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Geez. Kind of harsh don't you think? I mean, the guy has only been here a month or two. No need to fire him over a simple mistake!
(I kid! I kid!)
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I tried sending ***** and it went through. So did 12345.
Oh You POS
You could always post a screenshot of the logs, since that seems to be admissable in court nowadays.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
Sorry, must've been filtered out.
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I noticed this happens on Slashdot too, for example when I try to say it gets filtered out and never appears in the post. Neither does or .
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Ah, fantastic job, Yahoo! In order to prevent URL-spamming, you block a URL unless it is sent repeatedly :-\
Indeed. It also blocks ".pif". However it does a shockingly bad job of it. If you're in a multi-chat with several people, typing ".pif" will cause the "Network Error" message to come up and kick everyone out the chat. So you can effectively kill a multi-chat whenever you want =)
Ahh, but that wouldn't hold true if you told your friend not to access it. Then, if activity shows up immediately, either YIM is checking it... or your friend is an idiot.