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Lobsters blocks URL shorteners like t.co and bit.ly because they create dupe posts and generate good traffic data for marketers. This used to be a hardcoded constant called TRACKING_DOMAINS that was irregularly updated; that was folded into the general-purpose domain banning feature in #1080.
I'd like to use this list (and/or another, if others exist?) to replace our use of the domain banning feature, which requires manual intervention, doesn't provide a convenient list of blocked shorteners, and has the slightly odd step of creating a Domain record we haven't ever had a link to in order to ban it.
Updating our copy of the list could added to our daily cron job.
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Lobsters blocks URL shorteners like t.co and bit.ly because they create dupe posts and generate good traffic data for marketers. This used to be a hardcoded constant called
TRACKING_DOMAINS
that was irregularly updated; that was folded into the general-purpose domain banning feature in #1080.I saw a story about frustrations growing a link shortener (via) and the author mentioned maintaining a list of shorteners.
I'd like to use this list (and/or another, if others exist?) to replace our use of the domain banning feature, which requires manual intervention, doesn't provide a convenient list of blocked shorteners, and has the slightly odd step of creating a Domain record we haven't ever had a link to in order to ban it.
Updating our copy of the list could added to our daily cron job.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: