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by fddrdplktrew 846 days ago
> But link shorteners, even when used by good faith actors, are problematic because they hide the destination of the link

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.

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This is why I love 'Copy clean link' in Brave.
“Copy Link Without Site Tracking” is available in Firefox also.
"Visit link without site tracking" would be nice, to save a step.