This unicode fuckery isn't just for domain names: I've had assholes list my books for sale on Amazon and Apple Books under an account that uses a unicode glyph to replace one of the letters in my name—the title shows up in search, but any payments for ...
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This unicode fuckery isn't just for domain names: I've had assholes list my books for sale on Amazon and Apple Books under an account that uses a unicode glyph to replace one of the letters in my name—the title shows up in search, but any payments for sales go into the grifter's account.
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@cstross It's stunning that Amazon is unwilling and lazy enough to not implement some simple filtering based on name and title similarities. This shouldn't even take a day to write the necessary code for.
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@tsturm First ask yourself how many books have the same title. (Answer: lots.) Second, ask yourself how many authors have similar names. (Obligatory shout-out to tech author Randall Stross at this point.) Now ask yourself what lawsuits AMZN would open itself up for by auto-banning authors or book titles …
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@cstross @tsturm OTOH they could auto-ban names that use a suspicious mix of specific characters from different unicode blocks, as defined by the unicode consortium itself
(there are libraries that do all of the dirty work for you)
if they allowed for a manual override (after reasonable checks) for that one author who really wants to sell a book titled “don't go to aⅿazon.com” I'd think it would be a pretty reasonable restriction
