You can't type "mailinator.com" in Facebook chat

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38 points·zinxq··11 comments

It's a fools errand to try to prevent people from creating anonymous accounts using something like a throw-away email address. It's just far to easy to do.

I think they just want to make it as hard as possible to prevent as much bot script account creation as they can.

That's a good point, but it doesn't explain why they prevent you from typing "mallinator.com" into a post. To me that's taking it a bit too far -- bots don't read other posts.

Probably because they have the one filtering engine across their entire estate.

but you can type http://66.135.60.177/

or http://dodgit.com/

Only costs a few bucks to register a own domain and have a unlimited supply of throw away email addresses.

There is no prevention at all... it's not even making it hard.

>You can't type "mailinator.com" in Facebook chat

Or anywhere else on Facebook, for that matter.

Does anyone have a master list of the words You Can't Say on Facebook?

I wonder how much it intersects with the 'Green Dam'/Chinese censorship list.

How can someone not have a lower opinion of Facebook after learning that they unnecessarily censor people in such a stupid way?

facebook filtering can be very annoying. you can't send an mms:// link to friends in a message. i've to lookup their email and mail it.

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