It’s around 9 months since it was discovered that MSN had implemented some pretty retarded keyword blocking rules on messages sent through MSN Messenger (aka. Live Messenger; not the client, the protocol). Now — according to Slashdot — they’ve added at least one more keyword to the list: “youtube.com”. I guess it’s only fair to speculate if this has something to do with the recent launch of Messenger TV in 20 countries.

allocinit has a more comprehensive list of blocked sub-strings and now you can add at least “youtube\.com” to it. Has anybody tested if links to Google Video gets through?

Now, this is just one reason that I don’t use MSN more than what is absolutely necessary…

UPDATE (May 12, 2008): I’ve tossed Adium into the trash can on my dock and am no longer using MSN. Try Google Talk instead, if you want to reach me via IM. It may not be open source or that far from MSN, but at least they don’t censor one’s messages and it’s based on Jabber (at least the protocol is open), so pretty much any Jabber client will work with it, hence everyone can join in without relying on a reverse engineered protocol. My Google Talk name is: lillesvin@gmail.com.