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At this point I consider every link shortening service to be malicious. The "good" ones, at best, take down the URLs that are reported to them but they don't do anything to stop the same scammers from creating more. They don't even seem to bother searching for other active URLs pointing to the same malicious content.

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Yep, wish there was a good up to date list of every link shortener I could block by default but instead it seems like every day some new one pops up. Probably because the last domain they created got blocked on enough sites and its trivial to write one that is unmoderated and abused by CSAM spammers.

That seems a bit like saying DNS is malicious, networking is malicious, information is malicious. Almost everything in this world could be used maliciously, and that can't easily be stopped with great success.

Everything can be abused, some things are abused more often than others. There comes a point when something becomes more trouble than it's worth. DNS/networking/information hasn't hit that threshold, but open DNS resolvers, open SMTP relays, and URL shorteners seem to have.

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