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This URL is blocked by my company's network because of a certain substring in the URL lol

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A classic case of the Scunthorpe problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

In this case the substring is part of the author's name. Such names are not at all uncommon.

I just saw something similar with a user on here dangsux...

Apparently might be Dang's UX and not against the Mod. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Alistair Cockburn is one of the signatories of the Agile Manifesto.

You may have heard of him more recently with the Hexagonal Architecture approach.

There are dozens of us!

Well if it isn't my arch-nemesis – my legally designated name. Maybe I should've gone for something with just my first name like drewsexpertblog.dev

Have you been saving that one for a rainy day?

I'd recommend trying to host it at a more reputable domain. Like the commercial use subdomain of Cook Islands, .co.ck

I remember us once giving a supplier access to our internal bug tracker for a collaborative project. They were unable to get to the “…/openissue” endpoint.

I was on a mailing list once where messages were blocked because of msexchange being in the headers.

Any relation to ExpertsExchange?

Ah, this was before ExpertsExchange existed. I think that it was Corel that had the mail filter, and it was related to Corel Linux.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Linux

You mean ExpertSexChange? If you’re gonna capitalize it, do it right.

Fair, I would never do mine at Microsoft

I once worked for a company that blocked Cuban sites because of .cu (which is the Portuguese word for the end of your digestive system), but did not block porn sites (or so I was told ;-).

That seems like the sort of thing you check on your last day as you’re going out the door.

“The rumors are true!”

(Although less amusing, you could also just ask the IT guys and gals)

Are you sure it wasn't because of the US embargo on Cuba? Companies outside the US often participate(d) as well, because they want to do business with the US and US companies.

The proxy replied with a message stating that the site was blocked because it was pornographic.

What why ? Would people browse bigcocks.net unless it’s explicitly blocked? What about cox?

Is „tube“ on a blocklist as well?

Because a sales person at some "security" company convinced a CTO that it was as good idea.

The security company just follows "best practices" :)

It is idiotic, yes. This feature is certainly outsourced to our mediocre IT contractor

My company also blocks it, but as phishing.

Mine blocked it when I first created it, you can usually flag an incorrectly classified site and they'll correct it (I assure that you I'm not doing any phishing).

Shut off like a petcock.

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