Youtube links blocked on MSN Messenger?

Rengoku · (05-10-2008, 05:14 AM)

Is anyone else unable to paste youtube related links into the chat window of MSN messenger? even typing www.youtube.com doesn't work.

omg rite · (05-10-2008, 05:16 AM)

lol MSN.

oldschoolpinball · (05-10-2008, 05:17 AM)

youtube is looking like a mobile version of the site right now

buckfutter · (05-10-2008, 05:18 AM)

I just noticed this an hour ago.

shuri · (05-10-2008, 05:18 AM)

yep i can confirm this as well. What the fuck is up with that.

Darko · (05-10-2008, 05:27 AM)

microsoft <3

kassatsu · (05-10-2008, 05:29 AM)

I wonder what the explanation spin will be.

Kritz · (05-10-2008, 05:34 AM)

http://uk.youtube.com/

Try that. It seems you can link to it without it being blocked.

Buttonbasher · (05-10-2008, 05:41 AM)

Just noticed this too. WTF MSN.

Xabora · (05-10-2008, 05:42 AM)

Works for me...

Oh wait... I'm using Trillian for MSN.

jts · (05-10-2008, 05:43 AM)

I'm surprised it doesn't change to Microsoft's equivalent of Youtube as you type.

kozmo7 · (05-10-2008, 05:50 AM)

Not working for me either. I really ought to start using Trillian.

grandjedi6 · (05-10-2008, 05:51 AM)

seems like some system administrator got rickroll'd one too many times

Ford Prefect · (05-10-2008, 05:53 AM)

I tried sending a mediafire link the other day and that didn't work either.

jamesinclair · (05-10-2008, 05:53 AM)

Time to burn Seattle

Siyou · (05-10-2008, 05:54 AM)

fuck as lame!

sangreal · (05-10-2008, 05:56 AM)

works for me (US)

davepoobond · (05-10-2008, 06:32 AM)

AHAHAHAHHA

sykoex · (05-10-2008, 06:39 AM)

Originally Posted by jamesinclair:

Time to burn Seattle

hey hey hey, nintendo is there!!

oh wait, didn't they leave for San Francisco? LET IT BURN!

M3wThr33 · (05-10-2008, 06:39 AM)

Holy shit that's fucked up.

kassatsu · (05-10-2008, 06:49 AM)

Originally Posted by sykoex:

hey hey hey, nintendo is there!!

oh wait, didn't they leave for San Francisco? LET IT BURN!

Only marketing is in san francisco.

Don't burn me, I live here.

Wii · (05-10-2008, 08:59 AM)

Hrmmmm, seems like it.
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?!

Sean · (05-10-2008, 10:01 AM)

It's annoying how much shit MSN blocks...

Any message with "download.php" in the URL does not go through for example.

Papi · (05-10-2008, 10:05 AM)

HAHAHAHAHA Gosh.

" The following message could not be delivered to all recipients:
Apparently www.youtube.com is blocked on MSN now"

James-Ape · (05-10-2008, 10:11 AM)

what is the meaning of this!?

linsivvi · (05-10-2008, 10:21 AM)

Apparantly Xanga is blocked too. I wonder if there's more. WTF?

Giganticus · 10:52 AM

what the fuck is this shit.jpg

Seriously, what the hell? http://video.msn.com/ works totally fine though!

EDIT: wait, who here is having problems and whom amongst us is European?

Souldriver · (05-10-2008, 10:52 AM)

Originally Posted by Giganticus:

what the fuck is this shit.jpg

Seriously, what the hell? http://video.msn.com/ works totally fine though!

It's almost as if Microsoft's selective with their blocking!? Well I never!

aku:jiki · (05-10-2008, 11:24 AM)

I'm not allowed to send YT links to my friend, but he can send them to me and he's not in Trillian or anything like that. wat.

Johnkers · (05-10-2008, 12:14 PM)

Doesn't work at all for me either.

What the fuck is this!?

Danne-Danger · (05-10-2008, 12:25 PM)

MSN - The Exodus

DECK'ARD · (05-10-2008, 12:33 PM)

lol Microsoft

Vai · (05-10-2008, 12:36 PM)

Not working for me either. I'm in the UK.

Microsoft will be in a lot of trouble if this was done on purpose.

JonathanEx · (05-10-2008, 12:47 PM)

It'll have been done on purpose, but they'll pretend it's a technical error.

Souldriver · (05-10-2008, 12:49 PM)

Originally Posted by JonathanEx:

It'll have been done on purpose, but they'll pretend it's a technical error.

How can they pretend something like that? Is it possible that by hassard all links with "utub" in them are blocked or something?

Kritz · (05-10-2008, 12:56 PM)

Huh. Well it seems they've stopped uk.youtube.com from working, but not youtube.co.uk.

They're not very good at this censorship thing.

JonathanEx · (05-10-2008, 12:58 PM)

Originally Posted by Souldriver:

How can they pretend something like that? Is it possible that by hassard all links with "utub" in them are blocked or something?

Well, if it was on purpose (which is my guess, I wouldn't be surprised), they're really not going to want to make a statement going "yeah lol we have youtube", it'd be suicide. Internal malfunction of future technology is a good bullshit line.

Xrenity · (05-10-2008, 12:58 PM)

No problems here? (Netherlands)

Great King Bowser · (05-10-2008, 12:59 PM)

Well this has pretty much ruined all of my MSN conversations.

DKnight · (05-10-2008, 12:59 PM)

Everybody should come to gtalk

Dagon · (05-10-2008, 01:01 PM)

Yes, just noticed it's happening here too. Works if you take off the leading http://www. though.

JonathanEx · (05-10-2008, 01:02 PM)

Originally Posted by DKnight:

Everybody should come to gtalk

Google's strategy with Gtalk is idiotic. It's great that it's integrated in to Gmail and other products, but the large differences between the downloadable client and the web one... why does your browser version have more features?!

And I know they did the Google Talk Labs Edition, but that was just the browser version in an EXE wrapper... and so it was a step back in terms of usability, as people tend to use standalone IM programs and ones integrated in to websites differently. It didn't even have shit+enter for new line!

Hellcrow · (05-10-2008, 01:20 PM)

Any reason why, yet? I find this very annoying.

Xrenity · (05-10-2008, 01:55 PM)

http://www.istartedsomething.com/200...wwwyoutubecom/

Kuran · (05-10-2008, 02:09 PM)

Ridiculous.

NekoFever · (05-10-2008, 02:28 PM)

Originally Posted by JonathanEx:

Google's strategy with Gtalk is idiotic. It's great that it's integrated in to Gmail and other products, but the large differences between the downloadable client and the web one... why does your browser version have more features?!

And I know they did the Google Talk Labs Edition, but that was just the browser version in an EXE wrapper... and so it was a step back in terms of usability, as people tend to use standalone IM programs and ones integrated in to websites differently. It didn't even have shit+enter for new line!

GTalk is just XMPP/Jabber, an open-source protocol. Any one of the innumerable clients out there should work.

This is bullshit if it's true, and considering the number of YouTube links that get thrown around I hope there's a mass exodus from it. It already filters URLs with certain words in them (according to Wikipedia: ".info", "download.php", "gallery.php", "profile.php?", ".pif", ".scr" or ".script"), which is annoying and circumvented by some clients by encoding the URL in a certain way, but there's no reason to block YouTube unless you're suicidal or don't want everyone going to the competitor's site.

I like MSN better than AIM, but I use Adium so it doesn't make a lot of difference to me. A mass exodus to an open alternative wouldn't be a bad thing.

Dot50Cal · (05-10-2008, 02:42 PM)

US, happening here too. What the hell?

Uncle · (05-10-2008, 02:43 PM)

Oh wow. WTF Microsoft...

Great King Bowser · (05-10-2008, 08:39 PM)

Appears to have been 'fixed' for me.

Phobophile · (05-10-2008, 08:45 PM)

I've been having Mediafire links unable to be sent. Are the two related?