> I still don’t understand why you think url shorteners break the web.
How do you know where the links resolve to once FB goes out of business?
Given the fact that there are still lots of people whose entire job is translating 6,000-year-old grocery receipts from Sumeria, it's not at all unlikely that tweets being written today will be still be widely studied and considered important 10,000 years from now. But those short links are unlikely to resolve for even the next 20 years.
Also, adding js should no longer add more attack surface now that we have things like subresource integrity in addition to CSPs.
How do you know where the links resolve to once FB goes out of business?
Given the fact that there are still lots of people whose entire job is translating 6,000-year-old grocery receipts from Sumeria, it's not at all unlikely that tweets being written today will be still be widely studied and considered important 10,000 years from now. But those short links are unlikely to resolve for even the next 20 years.
Also, adding js should no longer add more attack surface now that we have things like subresource integrity in addition to CSPs.