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unclebucknasty
on June 3, 2014
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The URL shortener situation is out of control
Genuinely curious: How does it take down bad URLs? And, by "bad", are we talking about 404s?
TheCoelacanth
on June 3, 2014
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"Bad" as in malware, phishing, etc. When they recognize that a URL is bad, they can simply stop redirecting to that URL.
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