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Thursday, June 15 2006 @ 14:30 CEST Contributed by: Dirk
Just a quick observation from two spams pointing to blogspot.com that just hit several of our sites: free-ringtones-for-nokia-apmy.blogspot.com - That site doesn't exist. Stupid spammer, premature spamming, or quick reaction of the Blogspot crew? I guess I'll have to keep an eye on this. casino-kamai37451.blogspot.com - That site does exist, and it does a redirect to bestgamblecasino.com. These redirects of course render Blogspot's "flag objectionable content" option useless. I wonder how hard if would be for them to detect and prevent redirects? [edit:] I forgot to mention: Blogger does have the option to host your blog on your own domain, but that's not what the spammers are using here. They are using some JavaScript trickery ...
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Blogspot spam ... and slow responses

I've only now gotten a response from Blogger support (about the above casino site), stating We will examine it soon and take action as necessary.

Turnaround times of well over 24 hours aren't exactly helping here, though - this spammer has moved on long ago.

Authored by: Dirk on Friday, June 16 2006 @ 23:21 CEST

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Blogspot spam ... and slow responses

You could try this:

Use a browser with JavaScript turned off (or no JavaScript support, like lynx)
to access the blog. View the source and search for where it says:

<iframe src="http://www.blogger.com/navbar.g?blogID=XXXXXXX";

Copy the number that I have marked with XXXXXXX and add it to the
following URL (where I've put XXXXXXX again):

http://www2.blogger.com/flag-blog.g?nav=4&toFlag=XXXXXXX

Then paste that URL into a browser with JavaScript again and see what
happens. The URL given is what the "flag this blog" JavaScript on blogger
pages seems to call.

It should be fairly easy to write a little program that would do this semi-
automatically.

Regards, betabug (from betabug.ch)

Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 31 2007 @ 15:51 CET

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Blogspot spam ... and slow^Wno responses

Thanks. I may even try that on occasion, assuming I start caring about spam blogs at blogspot.com again.

What makes me stop caring (and instead just discarding anything that contains "blogspot.com") is the complete lack of response and action from Blogger.

Today, I received a spam post that contained 252 different blogspot URLs, most of which contained popular drug names in their title (something like tramadol-something-or-other.blogspot.com, etc.).

Why is it still possible to create blogs with those names? And how is it even possible to create over 250 of them? And am I supposed to report each one of them individually, using either that silly flag (for which I would have to defeat the redirect first, as described above) or through the "report a spam blog" form, which only allows one(!) URL at a time?

No, I think Blogger doesn't care about spam blogs any more. And so I won't care about Blogger / blogspot.com any more.

Authored by: Dirk on Thursday, February 01 2007 @ 21:13 CET

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