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Windows Live Messenger URL Blocking

Yesterday i read this on some sites: Windows Live Messenger is blocking sites like YouTube and Deviantart, among others…

People went crazy on this because many thought that Microsoft was behind this “censorship” of website url being sent in Windows Live Messenger. You can imagine all the complains that were posted on major news sites and forums.

Just a few minutes ago i went to the official Inside Windows Live Messenger blog and learned that this was just an error and it wasn’t Microsoft’s fault. Instead, they posted that a third-party partner of them handles the blocking system.

According to them, the problem is now gone.

As some of you noticed, we had a problem from Friday night to Saturday morning where our Messenger service was incorrectly blocking some legitimate IP addresses. We sincerely apologize for any difficulties this caused our users. And we want to thank those of you that reported this problem to us so that we could quickly fix it. Because of your help, the incorrect block was only in place for a few hours. [...]

URL Blocking: Problem now fixed Source: URL Blocking: Problem now fixed


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  1. CyberFox
    August 1st, 2009 at 16:28 | #1

    Do you know if there’s a place where i can report an incorrectly blocked URL like my website, or …like mediafire.com?

  2. August 3rd, 2009 at 09:30 | #2

    Look in the Windows Live Help at their website.

    I think I saw something to report blocked URL’s but I’m not 100% sure.

  3. CyberFox
    August 4th, 2009 at 08:46 | #3

    Thnx man i’ll try looking there.

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