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This is very good, but... > As we continue our analysis, we may remove individual links that point to spammy, malicious or 404 links. Please be careful with 4
by pygy_ 4y ago
This is very good, but...
> As we continue our analysis, we may remove individual links that point to spammy, malicious or 404 links.
Please be careful with 404 errors. They can be the result of temporary server misconfiguration.
- half-kh-hacker 4y agoCan git.io links point to a server that's not controlled by GitHub though?
- trevcanhuman 4y agoNot directly. According to github, only `github.com` and `*.github.io` links were enabled. But one could set up an html on github pages that redirects to the 'real' URL.
- samwillis 4y agoNot only 404 but also 5xx errors. As an example, I run an online store, Google checks the landing page urls for ads once a day. If you happen to have a temporary outage (surprisingly common on Heroku) at that exact moment your ads will be deactivated and not run for up to 24hrs! I’m somewhat suspicious it also dumps your ad back into a learning phase.
- CodesInChaos 4y agoAnd learning the target url allows you to look it up on archive.org, even if the target is permanently unavailable.