Techniques for providing protection against unsafe links on a social networking website

An article of manufacture for providing protection against unsafe links on a social networking website, the article of manufacture comprising:

• at least one non-transitory processor readable medium;
• and
• instructions stored on the at least one medium;
• wherein the instructions are configured to be readable from the at least one medium by at least one processor and thereby cause the at least one processor to operate so as to:
• receive, from the social networking website, user profile data associated with a user of the social networking website;
• scan a plurality of links in the user profile data, wherein the scanning is automatically performed periodically on newly posted links in the user profile data;
• access a safety rating for each of the plurality of links;
• and
• output, to a client device associated with the user, a link analysis report that indicates the safety rating of each of one or more of the plurality of links.

A system for providing protection against unsafe links on a social networking website comprising:

• one or more hardware processors communicatively coupled to a network;
• wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
• receive, from the social networking website, user profile data associated with a user of the social networking website;
• scan a plurality of links in the user profile data, wherein the scanning is automatically performed periodically on newly posted links in the user profile data;
• access a safety rating for each of the plurality of links;
• and
• output, to a client device associated with the user, a link analysis report that indicates the safety rating of each of one or more of the plurality of links.