Here’s a tip for anyone developing a URL shortener – blacklist ‘naughty’ words.
I’m talking to YOU LinkedIn. Check out the short URL you generated for an event I created recently.
Now you’d have to say, as far as words that might be filtered as inappropriate, it’s a pretty obvious one. If you missed that, you probably don’t have any kind of exception mechanism at all. You might want to fix that.
By the way, I didn’t notice this until after I had pasted the short URL into an email and widely distributed it. A mate of mine, Vaughan, messaged me saying the link was busted - Erin (his girlfriend) was redirected to a ‘scary bunny’ website. No doubt I was being blocked, warned about and denounced as a pornographer and spammer by institutional firewalls all over town.
