The Google Shortlinks #Pornocalypse In Action
Remember last week when I blogged about rumors that Google was disabling certain shortlinks built using the Goo.gl link shortener, if the link targets were porn sites? Well, thanks to a pair of tweets from Rain DeGrey attempting to share a photo from HardTied.com, right now you can see that that little chunk of the #pornocalypse in live action. Here are the tweets:
The one & only @DarlingBDSM is worked over by @MWRigger for @HardTied as only they can!! #BDSM http://t.co/BAbBL2POyf pic.twitter.com/GozhucZZWI
— Rain DeGrey (@raindegrey) June 25, 2014
Evidently Google could not deal with the awesomeness that is @DarlingBDSM and disabled the link to her shoot :( Fine. http://t.co/YRAoR2Ypfg
— Rain DeGrey (@raindegrey) June 25, 2014
And sure enough, if you click the goo.gl link in that first tweet, right now Google is serving you this instead of the photo Rain linked to:
The only sentence in the two policy links Google offers that seems even remotely relevant is this one: “Do not use this service for spamming or linking to content that may harm other users.”
The modern state of Google’s anti-spam software: there’s a rule in there that assumes that porn and spam are the same thing. Don’t be evil? My ass.
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Shorter URL for sharing: http://www.erosblog.com/?p=12031
Your comment optimistically assumes that Google hasn’t decided the porn ‘harm(s) other users’….
Two months later, it’s interesting to note that the link works now.
The same thing happened to me earlier in the year. Without seeing this post and thinking it was a fluke, yesterday I set up another link to a phone sex site (no nudity etc), I checked the link at the time it was created and decided to check the stats today. It was pulled for violating the TOS.