Only allow whitelisted URLs for new scratchers or don't allow them to post offsite links

Zydrolic

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Ozzy-Is-Epic

Doesn't sound like a bad idea. phishing links and other bad links are bad so I support this

Zydrolic

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Zydrolic

Zydrolic wrote:
(#304)
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Zydrolic

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Zydrolic

Zydrolic wrote:
(#306)

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Zydrolic

this topic is (in terms of discussion) suffering a financial crisis

Zydrolic

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EDawg2011

Anyways, huge support. Younger people are way more vulnerable to malware links and stuff. idk why the Scratch Team hasn't added this restriction yet. It should be top priority because we need to protect gullible people from making their families homeless by giving out their credit card information.

scratchcode1_2_3

will it really be that easy to code though????

well maybe yes

I was working on something that made links unclickable which is easy
however, since links are already unclickable, they need to be detected. well sadly this isn't too possible because one way might be to just check for every single string that is connected to another through a period like

randomWord.randomWord2

(except for scratch.mit.edu)

The problem with this first method is that not all words or comments that have a period between two strings are links, they could very well just be grammatical errors and will force people to follow them.The other problem is also that people could also just put spaces like

google . com
google com

so this might be hard

kkidslogin

scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:
(#311)
will it really be that easy to code though????

well maybe yes

I was working on something that made links unclickable which is easy
however, since links are already unclickable, they need to be detected. well sadly this isn't too possible because one way might be to just check for every single string that is connected to another through a period like
randomWord.randomWord2
(except for scratch.mit.edu)

The problem with this first method is that not all words or comments that have a period between two strings are links, they could very well just be grammatical errors and will force people to follow them.The other problem is also that people could also just put spaces like
google . com
google com
so this might be hard

maybe not as hard as it seems—all links have a basic structure, a good RegEx should do the trick nicely.

unmissable

scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:
will it really be that easy to code though????

well maybe yes

I was working on something that made links unclickable which is easy
however, since links are already unclickable, they need to be detected. well sadly this isn't too possible because one way might be to just check for every single string that is connected to another through a period like
randomWord.randomWord2
(except for scratch.mit.edu)

The problem with this first method is that not all words or comments that have a period between two strings are links, they could very well just be grammatical errors and will force people to follow them.The other problem is also that people could also just put spaces like
google . com
google com
so this might be hard

I thought the filter didn't care about spaces would it apply here?

Zydrolic

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Zydrolic

Zydrolic wrote:
(#314)
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scratchcode1_2_3

unmissable wrote:
(#313)
I thought the filter didn't care about spaces would it apply here?

what?

PaperMarioFan2022

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Zydrolic

scratchcode1_2_3 wrote:
(#316)
unmissable wrote:
(#313)
I thought the filter didn't care about spaces would it apply here?
what?

unmissable means that the filter will not care for any space.
For example, if I say “Hello, Everyone!”, the filter reads that out as:
“Hello,Everyone!” or without the comma, whichever.
I didn't know about it when making the topic though.

Zydrolic

ImARealDogNow

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-chaosduck-

Support, and I think that after being reported for posting suspicious links, that user loses the ability to post links(either forever or for a set time). I think scratch should make a list of approved websites, and you need to be a full scratcher to send non approved links. Also non approved links should have a popup, not approved ones. The approved websites list won't be very large, since it will only include some common and safe websites, but new scratchers like me(I just started a new account) will still be able to post links.

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