Comment by vaduz
5 years ago
Dropbox DL and Preview urls take a form of https://uc[26 character hex string].dl.dropboxusercontent.com/... and https://uc[26 character hex string].preview.dropboxusercontent.com/... - it does not have to be a separate TLD to avoid being blocked, but it has to be differentiated.
This is the same reason why the block of the TFA company did not cause an outage of everyone using CloudFront - GSB does not block full TLDs if it can be shown content is distinct. Same for anyone using S3, Azure equivalents and so on.
I wonder if there's a threshold here.. When I researched this issue (while we were figuring out how to mitigate it), I did encounter some people who had their entire domains blocked because 1 subdomain had bad content. In fact, this thread itself has mention of that happening to neocities
Author here. It's really not clear what criteria GSB uses to decide at which level the ban should apply.
Probably when the ratio of bad sites to good sites at a particular subdomain level passes a threshold.
Or when a significant litigation risk is perceived, if the domain level block review is human