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by cJ0th 3859 days ago
A friend once mourned that she got too many spam mails. I recommended her a throwaway e-mail service via a private Facebook message. FB blocked my message telling me that I can not send it as it includes a dangerous link.

I made a screenshot of this response and wanted to share that instead. The funny thing is that in the screenshot, FBs red comment re: the dangerous link was so blurry that you could not read it. I guess this was probably due to a compression algorithm they apply on pictures but it is funny that the rest of the message was easily readable in the screenshot.
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merlincorey 3859 days ago
Yes, even if you send a high quality PNG image to facebook, they will convert it to a low quality JPG. This is especially bad for things with text. See: http://lbrandy.com/blog/2008/10/my-first-and-last-webcomic/
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eveningcoffee 3859 days ago
It could be that it was also result of the character recognition.

Could you repeat the test and provide the name of the service so others can try to replicate it?

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cJ0th 3859 days ago
> It could be that it was also result of the character recognition.

That's what I initially thought. But then again, it seemed a bit too paranoid.

The name of the service is discardmail.com

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