Yahoo Messenger Blocking youtube.com URLs?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 10, 2006 @08:51AM from the see-no-evil dept.

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!.

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here's what happened by porkThreeWays · 2006-10-10 08:53 · Score: 5, Funny

(yahoo guy in the back browsing slashdot at work)

Shit! *click* Whew.

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Re:That's great for Google! by IANAAC · 2006-10-10 09:26 · Score: 5, Funny

My friend attempted to submit this MONTHS ago and it was rejected.

Have your friend start a blog, then post the "article" to slashdot anonymously. Seems to regularly work.
Re:Can't imagine they'd want to. by Firehed · 2006-10-10 09:58 · Score: 5, Funny

You could always post a screenshot of the logs, since that seems to be admissable in court nowadays.

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