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Some necessary questions: - Does this use any blacklist to prevent URL shortener looping (i.e. using multiple URL shorteners on top of each other to bypass the
by memorable 4y ago
Some necessary questions:
- Does this use any blacklist to prevent URL shortener looping (i.e. using multiple URL shorteners on top of each other to bypass the checking), or preventing any potentially malicious sites?
- Does this have rate limits? URL shorteners get abused quite regularly, so this should be necessary.
- steventey 4y agoVery good questions! I was actually thinking about that right before launching last night! I'm planning to blacklist certain problematic hostnames and not let folks add them. In terms of rate limits, it does have rate limits when it comes to collecting analytics (if you spam click a link >10 times in 10s it still redirects you but it stops recording clicks. I can't think of how URL looping could bypass checking – could you elaborate?
- LinuxBender 4y agoAssuming validation of their licensing one might be able to use the same .txt lists that the browser addon uBlock imports as a baseline, then have a way to add custom entries. To keep Google and Bing happy maybe check to see if they have an official list of bad domains as well.