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by gigglesupstairs 1529 days ago
Cute. More fun ways to get redirected to harmful links. /s

Appreciate the efforts, though I get real skeptic with link shorteners due to their inherent risky nature.

Are you doing anything to avoid those kind of links in the backend?

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Currently no, since this was just meant to be a toy project. But I agree with you that I have to deal with moderation if I intend to keep this up. The only countermeasure is to peek into the URL without having to be redirected cause each shortened URL has a stats page. e.g https://emojied.net/stats/%F0%9F%8D%8A%F0%9F%8C%90