URL is Blocked or Blacklisted

 

The TinyURL link you are visiting is Blocked or Blacklisted. TinyURL has a strict no abuse policy and we apologize for the intrusion this may have caused you.

 

URL is blacklisted by: Quad9

Destination Link: https://beacons.ai/giftaward

 
 

 
 

How Blacklisting Works at TinyURL

TinyURL partners with several organizations and databases to address the issue of fraud, spam, and other harmful digital activity. We also note harmful pages identified by users who file support tickets.

When a TinyURL link redirects to a site flagged by one of our partners, we redirect to this page (this very page!).

If you run into any false positives or feel like your content has been falsely blacklisted, we highly encourage you to contact our support team so we can review the listing and recommend fixes as necessary.

 

Disagree that the link you were visiting should be blacklisted? Submit an appeal here.

 

What is Blacklisting?

Blacklisting happens when a website, search engine, or other authority flags a link due to malicious or suspicious behavior that has been deemed dangerous to users. This can result in warnings like the one you see above, or even flat-out denial of access for the sake of security.

 

What can cause a link to get Blacklisted?

Criminal in Nature

Social engineering sites (or as they’re commonly known, phishing sites) attempt to defraud users into giving away sensitive or personal information, or trick them into installing harmful applications.

Harmful Applications

Other pages can even attempt to download and run or install harmful applications (malware) directly to users’ devices.

Violating Laws or Specific Terms of Use

When a site or page has been identified as violating laws or specific terms of use without causing direct harm to users. Pages that perpetuate targeted cyberbullying, for example, while the user may be safe, the page itself is instrumental in causing third-party harm.

 

Can an honest link get Blacklisted?

While the process of blacklisting can be useful given how common bad actors are on the internet, it can’t claim to be 100% accurate.

Sites using harmful plug-ins (bad components) despite their best intentions can rightfully get blacklisted one day, and then address the problem the next day—but there might be a delay between fixing the problem and getting removed from a blacklist.

Likewise, there are rare occasions where sites get blacklisted without having any harmful elements to begin with. This has a fairly low chance of happening when an authority has a robust system in place for blacklisting—but no system, automated or staffed, is 100% free of errors.

These are called “false positives”, and they can be a problem for site owners and businesses that get called out under false pretenses.

 
 

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