The problems with url shorteners

Re:The problems with url shorteners by ruslan on Friday April 03, 2009 @05:55PM (#545698)

I believe soon we will have web sites which block visiters coming from shortened URLs, as sites will not be able to distinguish natural traffic from spam clicks.

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Re:The problems with url shorteners by tvon on Friday April 03, 2009 @06:11PM (#545735)

That's silly, you don't turn someone away because you can't properly fit them into your metrics. "Unknown" on a traffic graph is better than just cutting out that piece entirely.

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Re:The problems with url shorteners by slig on Friday April 03, 2009 @07:27PM (#545837)

You can't block because the referer header info isn't from the url shortener. As they usually do 30x redirects.

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Re:The problems with url shorteners by joshu on Friday April 03, 2009 @07:34PM (#545843)

You do see the ones that frame, btw.

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