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Kickass.to Links Blocked by Twitter

posted by mattie_p on Friday February 21 2014, @02:18PM   

l3g0la5 writes:

"Techie News reports:

Twitter isn't allowing users to post a link to Kickass.to stating that the URL in the tweet 'appears to link to a page that has spammy or unsafe content.' I tried clicking on one of the URLs sent to me by one of our publishers who wanted to share with us a draft copy of the soon to be published book and as soon as I clicked on it I was greeted with a rather unfamiliar message on Twitter. 'The site you were trying to visit may be unsafe! This link has been flagged as potentially harmful.' This led me to try out a little test of linking a random Kickass.to link and Twitter blocked the request with a message: 'Oops! A URL in your Tweet appears to link to a page that has spammy or unsafe content.'"

Fluffeh adds: "Questions to Twitter about the reason for this unusual blockade remain unanswered. On its website Twitter claims to use Google's safe browsing diagnostic tool, but the Kickass.to domain is not blocked here. Perhaps even stranger, KickassTorrent's old domain Kat.ph gets the same blocking treatment."

• They can do what they want....and so can I They can do what they want....and so can I (Score: 3, Insightful) by number6 on Friday February 21 2014, @08:05PM

  by number6 (1831) on Friday February 21 2014, @08:05PM (#4513) Journal

  Personally, I don't get worked up about the policies of any popular website; as long as I can implement a technical workaround, then I am happy.
  If the site tries to block every possible workaround, then I just take my bat and ball and leave for good

  In this case, I would do this:

  This literal URL string is not acceptable to them:      http://kickass.to/after-the-dark-2013-7 20-720p-brrip-x264-yify-t8794659.html
  If I convert it using ROT13 transformation I get:         uggc://xvpxnff.gb/nsgre-gur-qnex-2013 -720-720c-oeevc-k264-lvsl-g8794659.ugzy

  SO... I post the ROT13-transformed string instead of the literal string ...AND I freely give out information on a cool Greasemonkey script which will auto-convert ROT13 strings to literal strings on any web page.

  FURTHERMORE... If I was the Kickass site admins, I would generate a ROT13 version of the URL string and have it pasted as plain text at the page location.

  IF Twitter site admins decide to fight and block such workarounds then the gloves are off; I am going to treat them as "hostiles" in a war.

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• Re:They can do what they want....and so can I (Score: 2) by Hell_Rok on Friday February 21 2014, @11:10PM

  by Hell_Rok (2527) on Friday February 21 2014, @11:10PM (#4593) Homepage

  I don't really get why they bother linking the page, just shoot through the magnet url.

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