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Spammers exploiting trust in shortened URLs

http://www.scmagazineus.com/Spammers-exploiting-trust-in-shortened-URLs/article/139716/

by cmalpeli • 17 years ago

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byrneseyeview2• 17 years ago

Who "trusts" bit.ly or tinyurl? I trust them about as much as I trust http://.

joshu• 17 years ago

Point is that you can no longer use the url's hostname as a document feature for spam classification. You have to actually fetch (or at heast HEAD) the url itself.

Also, I called this one too.

byrneseyeview2• 17 years ago

This is true, but it's also true of any site that allows user-generated content. I would assume that it's easier to detect that bit.ly/gibberish leads to viagraaffiliatescam.com than to detect that randomblog.blogspot.com is a splog with 400 links, one of which goes to viagraaffiliatescam.com.

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