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by DrMiaow 748 days ago
This will be abused. A fun idea that seems harmless until you realize that grifters will use it to obfuscate their grifty payloads.
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Do you have any reason to believe that this is more prone to abuse than URL shorteners? If anything I'd expect the reverse to be true—a URL like this would raise far more eyebrows among most people than a short one would—and this one has a pretty thorough warning page before giving you a nondescript button to click to proceed to the target.