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Badly implemented word filter #51

Closed Fabian42 closed 5 years ago

Fabian42 commented 6 years ago

Original text: Blocked URL: Redirect of https://stackoverflow.com/users/story/integration/assessment?s=1 I can't publish the real URL, because it likely contains login data, but this one reproduces it as well: https://www.pluralsight.com/partners/stack-overflow/iq?promo= And even this reproduces it: google.com/?promo As well as: promo.com Seems like everything containing the word "promo" is blocked.

New info: Apparently every URL containing "promo" or "click" is blocked. I can kind of understand why those words, but just blocking normal words completely is a really bad way of implementing a blocker. I suspect there are more words like these.

k2jp commented 5 years ago

I'm sorry to respond too late.

promo and click are typical word used for advertising or malvertising. that's why they are blocked.

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Fabian42 commented 5 years ago

I'm not Japanese, so I guess it's fine to close this. But just blocking everything with "promo" in its URL is definitely not a good idea, as seen in the example I gave.