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- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- technology@lemmy.ml
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Everything must enshittify.
Have link shorteners ever not been shitty? It obfuscates a link for the sake of making things look pretty for people who can’t format text
Service-specific link shorteners are alright, like
youtu.be,a.coandgoo.gl/maps. At least know roughly where you’re going.For anything else, I rather see the full URLs, and if I need to share a link on a paper medium, I also make it available in a QRcode form.
IIRC, they originally became popular because they saved characters for microblogs like Twitter. They’ve outlasted their usefulness though.
When it comes to email I just have my server reject any containing links that point to URL shorteners. I’m not stupid enough to click them anyway but it’s safe to assume you’re just a scammer or some other lowlife, even if you’re otherwise considered a reputable business.
Laughs in Ublock Origin
I haven’t seen a Bitly link in dog’s years and assumed it had died.
Shocking. That’s what we get for expecting companies to be benevolent stewards of the internet. They tricked us for a decade and a half but the sheep’s clothing are coming off.
Host your own URL shortener with Yourls. It’s great, loads of useful plugins too. (dot)ink domains are cheap so you can have fun with namel.ink like I did.
Or just don’t shorten links? Shortening them just makes linkrot much more likely and also obfuscates where theyre going
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Yeah but that’s not a thing anymore so we should stop using them
I’ve had these losers DNS blocked for years. Don’t respond to abuse reports? Get
NXDOMAIN’d.
