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29 Comments

garyvdh Said,
May 11th, 2008 @12:05 am  

I call BS. Works fine for me. I can send youtube links through MSN and Live Mail. No problem. You might want to check your facts before going to publish.

jauzion Said,
May 11th, 2008 @12:09 am  

Mate, you might want to check your own facts before posting. It’s not BS. Do a quick google search of the problem.

Vikrant Said,
May 11th, 2008 @12:38 am  

@Jauzion Thanks!!

@Garyvdh It has been tested and that’s why I wrote about it. You might want to do a quick search on Twitter about it. Here is a link to search results on Summize which tracks Twitter in real time.

http://summize.com/search?q=+msn+youtube+links

Volatile Said,
May 11th, 2008 @4:07 am  

Posting video links using youtube.net instead of youtube.com circumvents the problem.
Good work on failing, micro$oft!
Also, metacafe and all other video sites (including more “naughty” ones) are totally unblocked.

Volatile Said,
May 11th, 2008 @4:19 am  

I find it an unending source of amusement how M$ nowadays fail to be as mean as they always have been, due to impopularity by their users…

Support Said,
May 11th, 2008 @4:24 am  

Well..

Get Wireshark [http://www.wireshark.org/] and see for yourself.

Do your own experiment(s). Learn something. Stop being a sheep. Be the wolf.

:)

May 11th, 2008 @6:36 am  

I experienced it yesterday for myself and it kinda looked strange at that moment. Soon I realized that it’s a general Microsoft problem and not mine. However at this very moment as I’m typing this comment, seems like everything has just turned back as good as it used to work earlier. I’ve just tested it like 2 minutes ago.
Cheers!

sawyer Said,
May 11th, 2008 @8:52 am  

no block here,beijing,China

May 11th, 2008 @1:56 pm  

I have expirenced this yesterday, today they removed it. Also I noticed they doing the filtering at server-side, since im using pidgin as an MSN client, aswell my brother too, my youtube messages simply get back with an “unknown error”. Actually they are filtering *.download.php, also *.info, and many other strings. Its nice to know a third person at microsoft may read millions of msn messages freely.

May 12th, 2008 @1:20 pm  

its working for me here

ttyp00 Said,
May 12th, 2008 @9:17 pm  

i can’t even find the article among all these ads. i took one look at this page, scrolled all the way to the bottom, wrote this post, then left.

get a grip on your ads, please. you have more ads than content on this crappy site.

modette Said,
June 23rd, 2008 @10:01 pm  

I noticed I can not send any links to my friend now. Photobucket, a motorcycle forum link, even the link to this article. That is okay Microsoft, we still have email *shrug*

garyvdh Said,
July 3rd, 2008 @6:42 pm  

Hey, nearly two months later, and it turned out to be a server side glitch. and not even everyone was affected. Wow, big surprise! So it turned out to be BS after all. Great Story! ;)

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