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Do you know about any URL shortener that filters out ugly bad words?
For example, when goo.gl (or any other URL shortener) generates short URLs, does it skip URLs like goo.gl/evil or goo.gl/YouDie or goo.gl/f__k (without the two characters omitted)?
I imagine it'd be rather complicated to filter out bad words, since lots of languages use the Latin alphabet, and is it really feasible to filter out all bad words in all languages?
In my Webapp, I generate GUIDs, but include only numbers and consonants and the vovels u and y so as not to generate any bad words (or so I hope). However, Google's short URLs seem to include all vowels.
Update: A few weeks ago, I asked Bitly if they remove "ugly" words: they do not. I also asked on Google's URL shortener mailing list, if that URL shortener removes "ugly" words; no response so far.
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I don't think so. Really why would they do it? They just have to write it down in the TOS that the URL shortener uses a totally automated name generator. So every possible combination can occur.
It is much easier than writing a complicated code for that.
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