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Unicode obsfucation tricks trigger modern content filters faster than you can blink. Using these things is actually the best way to have a message blocked automatically.

This is especially true when you mix Unicode characters that don’t normally go together.

(Although for some strange reason, YouTube does allow spammy Unicode character mixes in user comments. I don’t know why)



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