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by not2b
845 days ago
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No disrespect to the folks at y_gy who are clearly doing their best. But link shorteners, even when used by good faith actors, are problematic because they hide the destination of the link, and of course that's an invitation for bad faith actors to exploit, so the battle will be endless. Shorteners got popular on Twitter back in the days when all the characters in the URL counted against a very short limit. But there's less need to use them these days, and I am very reluctant to click on shortened links and don't think that this is unusual. |
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In a sense, Google Search is even more evil because they change the destination link on-click. So hovering on a search result link doesn't show you the true destination.