Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
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Re: Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
#2Would be curious to hear how something like this happens.
My first guess was that the domain was part of a FB deny list but I don't see why it would. It's still up for grabs https://www.whois.com/whois/di.wang and I can't find any history on https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://di.wang/\\*.
Context is that this is part of an email address and my friend can't send their email anymore.
Re: Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
#3Would be curious to hear how something like this happens. My first guess was that the domain was part of a FB deny list but I don't see why it would. It's still up for grabs https://www.whois.com/whois/di.wang and I can't find any history on https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://di.wang/\\ *. Context is that this is part of an email address and my friend can't send their email anymore.
My guess is that facebook engineer named 'di wang' of which at least one exists[1] was attempting to ensure the
blocklist functionality worked in production.
Then again, the employee I found is an engineer in the ads department, so blocklist functionality seems unlikely for him to be working on.
[1] see linkedin. I have removed the link to an employees profile who may or may not be relevant and is not a public figure.
Re: Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
#4Would be curious to hear how something like this happens. My first guess was that the domain was part of a FB deny list but I don't see why it would. It's still up for grabs https://www.whois.com/whois/di.wang and I can't find any history on https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://di.wang/\\ *. Context is that this is part of an email address and my friend can't send their email anymore.
My guess is that facebook engineer named 'di wang' of which at least one exists[1] was attempting to ensure the blocklist functionality worked in production. Then again, the employee I found is an engineer in the ads department, so blocklist functionality seems unlikely for him to be working on. [1] see linkedin. I have removed the link to an employees profile who may or may not be relevant and is not a public figure…
Or maybe somebody in FB blocklist dev carried out a vendetta against such engineer…
Re: Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
#5Seems to work now. Or it might be geographically constrained (I’m in Poland).
Re: Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
#6Seems to work now. Or it might be geographically constrained (I’m in Poland).
Still broken when trying to send to the same contact. Also tried with a German VPN and same result.
What's super interesting though is that from what I can see it sends fine to my EU contacts but not to US contacts. I don't want to spam all my friends so I can't collect too many data points.
Re: Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
#7Would be curious to hear how something like this happens. My first guess was that the domain was part of a FB deny list but I don't see why it would. It's still up for grabs https://www.whois.com/whois/di.wang and I can't find any history on https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://di.wang/\\ *. Context is that this is part of an email address and my friend can't send their email anymore.
Could it be some sort of doxxing filter gone wrong, like when Twitter banned the word "Memphis"? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2021/03/14/twitter-su...
Re: Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
#8Seems to work now. Or it might be geographically constrained (I’m in Poland).
Not working for me (America).
Re: Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
#9Seems to work now. Or it might be geographically constrained (I’m in Poland).
It is also being filtered in Canada.
Re: Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
#10This is bizarre.