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by kevingadd 658 days ago
Yeah putting full unobfuscated links to malware or copyrighted content into your repository seems like an obvious way to get it blocked. If they masked the URLs a bit it might've been fine.
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if they were obfuscated the urls the app itself would need to process it to un-obfuscate, then the performance would take a hit, but I get your point. It's just the wrong service to host this.

PS: could not check the link, as my country blocked twitter.

FWIW:

* I often put malware samples in my repositories on github (I prepare malware analysis trainings, and I develop my trainings on github). Never got banned.

* There are a ton of leaked malware sources (and/or binaries) stored on github. They are not banned

* Github is full of blatantly obvious malware (at best "pentesting tools", at worst "educational projects"). Sadly, not banned too.