Alright, I got many many messages about the recent bot epidemic.
The bots are back. But it’s 10x worse. Right now, they only reblog posts with a link. They don’t post photos or use tags, so it’s harder to find them (at least for me). I think we should skip stage 3 & 4 all together. We operate within Tumblr’s framework and it’s kinda limited. So I suggest this:
We report the domains to the businesses hosting them.
I am super tired but I recall that almost all hosts have a clause mentioning you can’t use their service for spam or fraudulent websites.
Take this website for instance: lnjdn.freedating.mobi
My suggestion is that we collect URLs and find out who the web host is, and that we then send an email to the hosting provider with prove they are violating their terms so they take the website down.
There are a shitload of bots promoting only a handful of websites, so this should be more effective.
how do you find out what the link/URL is without actually clicking on it? I can’t just mouse over to see them because it puts a big tumblr redirect link in front of the actual link
alright, I’ve found a workaround (if you’re on desktop like me):
right-click on a link
select ‘copy link’ (this will copy the entire redirect)
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