{"id":8172,"date":"2010-08-25T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasgericke.de\/v4\/interactive\/blog\/?p=8172"},"modified":"2010-08-24T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T16:41:07","slug":"unfake-it-about-to-block-bit-ly-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomasgericke.de\/v4\/interactive\/blog\/2010\/08\/unfake-it-about-to-block-bit-ly-and-others\/","title":{"rendered":"unfake.it About To Block bit.ly And Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to excessive spam abuse, <code>unfake.it<\/code> will soon begin to block URLs from various other URL shortening services such as <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/<\/a>. All incoming URLs (no matter if they&#8217;re injected via web or API) from blacklisted domains won&#8217;t be shortened any longer as of the effective date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Effective date is: 2010-08-26 6pm UTC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reasons ain&#8217;t to harm other shortening services, but to reduce spam. It&#8217;s a common practice of spammers to shorten and shorten and shorten their URLs through more and more shortening services. <code>unfake.it<\/code> won&#8217;t support such habits any longer.<\/p>\n<p>If you intend to shorten formerly shortened URLs again and have the feeling that it&#8217;s okay, get in touch with me. We&#8217;ll find a way! Maybe by using an API key.<\/p>\n<p>I feel sorry for all those 42.000+ short URLs, but there ain&#8217;t no other way to prevent further spamming. Already shortened URLs will remain valid, so they might still be accessed in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to excessive spam abuse, unfake.it will soon begin to block URLs from various other URL shortening services such as http:\/\/bit.ly\/. All incoming URLs (no matter if they&#8217;re injected via web or API) from blacklisted domains won&#8217;t be shortened any longer as of the effective date. Effective date is: 2010-08-26 6pm UTC Reasons ain&#8217;t to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[231,331,151,111,1462],"class_list":["post-8172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-api","tag-internet","tag-programming","tag-unfake","tag-url-shortening"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasgericke.de\/v4\/interactive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasgericke.de\/v4\/interactive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasgericke.de\/v4\/interactive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasgericke.de\/v4\/interactive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasgericke.de\/v4\/interactive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasgericke.de\/v4\/interactive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8202,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasgericke.de\/v4\/interactive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8172\/revisions\/8202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasgericke.de\/v4\/interactive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasgericke.de\/v4\/interactive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomasgericke.de\/v4\/interactive\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}