Report a short link
Report a Click link by email
If a Click link leads somewhere it should not — a fake sign-in page, harmful software, a scam — send its code to labs@labs.llc. A blocked link stops showing its destination.
How to report
Write to labs@labs.llc. The link opens your own mail program with the lines below filled in; nothing is sent until you send it.
Subject: Report a click.com.im link Short link: https://click.com.im/ What is wrong with it: Where I received it (optional):
- The short link, or its code. The code is the seven characters after the slash. It is the one thing a report must have.
- What is wrong with it, in a sentence: what the destination pretends to be, or what it did.
- Where you received it, if you want to say: an email, a text message, a post.
You do not have to open the destination to report it
Every Click link opens a preview first. The preview shows the full address and the host, and it has its own “Report this link” button that fills in the code for you. You can also paste a link into the second box on the home page to see its preview without following it.
What happens to a reported link
A person reads the report. If the link breaks the terms, its code is added to Click’s blocklist. If the whole site is the problem, the host is added instead, which blocks every Click link to it and refuses new ones.
A blocked link answers “410 Gone” with a page that says it has been blocked. The destination is not shown and there is no Continue button. The block takes effect on the next request; nothing has to be rebuilt.
Click cannot take a site off the internet. Blocking a link stops Click from pointing at it, and nothing more.
Why there is no report form
A form that sends mail can be made to send it by anyone, in any quantity. Click’s server sends no mail at all. A report comes from your own mailbox, which also means a reply can reach you.
What Click stores about links and visitors is on the privacy page; how links are made and checked is on the method page.