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by lazystar 577 days ago
is there any hosting site that isn't? feels like a computing law at this point; if you build a hosting site, someone will try to use it for malicious purposes.
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Can’t you just make the hosting site features only be for real purposes?

Like a link shortener which only forwards to a domain that matches the subdomain? Or only for watching videos and collecting metrics etc.

Any file upload can be used for unintended purposes, eg encoding files into static to upload to youtube and all other sorts of tomfoolery: https://github.com/boehs/awesome-cloud-storage-abuse