Preventing abuse of your public YOURLS install
A lot of you, beloved users, are using YOURLS to set up public shorteners. Sooner or later you all face the same problem: abuse by spammers, sometimes until your hosting provider shuts down your site....
View ArticleForums are gone
I decided to remove the forums on this site. Long story made short: I’m uberfedup with dealing with spam and I’d rather do something productive with my too rare free time (and, to be honest, I’m...
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Getting spam links in YOURLS? Read this.
I regularly get reports or call for helps about YOURLS installs that are flooded with spam links despite being configured as private (ie constant YOURLS_PRIVATE set to true, as 99% of installs should...
View ArticleIntegrating the New Google reCAPTCHA With YOURLS
This guide and screenshots are courtesy of Jared Stark and Erasure Web Services, originally available on their own bitty.link shortener. It’s duplicated here in case their goes offline or missing but...
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