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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by absorbation
Why does a third party manage the blocks? It means they have made an escape goat.
Why does Patchou let the managing of the script database up to Menthix? Why do companies partner up with others? Because those 3rd parties have the expertise, time, experience, sponsor contracts, etc... lots of good reasons... So, there is probably a good reason too why it is managed by a 3rd party (aka MS-partner), what that reason is I dunno...
But I don't see what "an escape goat" has todo with this (appart for yet another "bash-MS for no reason" reason).
This makes sense, though I find it rather odd that the (for now anonymous) third-party company blocks out these kinds of domains without firstly investigating. Surely someone there knows that websites like googlepages.com, ebuddy.com, mediafire.com, and youtube.com are perfectly safe to use. It looks rather odd that the things getting blocked are competitors (in certain ways) of Microsoft.
On another note, if they block out domains that are sent out too much, why is google not blocked? If they can avoid google's block, then they can avoid this kind of block as well.
On an offtopic note, perhaps the youtube links were being sent out too much because people were getting Rick Roll'd? 
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