A estas alturas del partido creo que todos están enterados de la propuesta de ley SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) de no estarlo tenemos algo de información al respecto gracias a Wikipedia:
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I’m very very disappointed and angry at Google for banning my URL shortener completely from Google.com, the reason: Some bad user from Russia with the IP 95.58.223.48 and 95.58.222.43 use http://rod.gs to mask some urls from other URL Shortener (http://rs.gs) wich leads to a .jar file that it’s considered as malware.

Here it’s a log from a “wget” I did to traceroute the URL, I have removed the complete urls in order to prevent being banned for this post “because it’s giving malware URLs” ¬¬

The first problem with Google it’s that it’s banning Rod.gs because it redirects users to malware, BUT that’s what a URL Shortener do, redirections, rod.gs it’s malware free, there it’s not one single file that it’s infected and it doesn’t contain any single line of malicious code, banning rod.gs for redirecting to OTHER sites it’s like saying that Google it’s promoting piracy because shows results form thepiratebay.org, shame on you Google.

The second problem with Google it’s that their algorithms believe that http://rod.gs it’s another common website like any other website and don’t realize it is a URL Shortener service where users are responsible for their actions and not the website in question, a site that can ban any user and/or URL that violates the terms of service and a site that provides the users the availability to ban any URL at any time.

The third problem with Google it’s that they are banning the entire site without giving too much information about the issue, see what the Webmaster Tools diagnostic says:

When Google last tested this page, your server returned content that redirected the browser to a site that serves malware. Unfortunately, Google could not isolate malicious code within this page.

Where it’s the malicious code?
Which URL it’s doing the redirection?
Where it’s redirecting?

I still not get too much information from Google but as I said before, I reviewed URL by URL and I have found 5 links that redirected to a .jar file that I suspect it’s the malware they are reporting, but I’m not 100% sure that those URLs are the main reason Google banned rod.gs because the partial information Google it’s giving.

The fourth problem with Google it’s that they are so fucking slow, I reviewed and cleaned rod.gs the very same day I get the first warning screen on Google Chrome, and the very same day I have asked Google Web Master Tools for a review on my site to be available again on Chrome and on Google.com, 3 days later and still waiting, the damage it’s causing to my site it’s irreparable, users are very afraid of infections and malware online, rod.gs it’s 100% clean of malware and the Chrome (and FireFox also) are showing a warning scaring my users and the urls shortened by my users are now useless because the warning.

But the worst thing it’s that I have another project that that loads some flash files from my site and this project its available in more than 6 million websites, which are showing the warning screen on the users who visits those 6 million sites.

When it’s going to be the problem fixed, who knows, the communication with some human on Google it’s inexistent and painfully slow, in the main time I’m screwed with my URL Shortener and a couple of projects more…

Thanks Google ¬¬ (if you didn’t notice, this is sarcasm)

How can I prevent this issues, well, I can pay for some third party to help me fight malware, but I’m not making any money from this service, other way it’s to only admit registered users, but what if users don’t want to sign in with Twitter or Facebook? And I don’t agree to ban all Russian visitors :-/ again, thanks Google.

The thing that scares me the most it’s that with the current discussion about SOPA you can see Googles behavior banning sites it’s not very different from the behavior we are expecting from SOPA supporters, its mandatory get better approaches to this kind of issues, Google has to be more accurate and fast fixing this kind of problems.

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