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by endgame 4409 days ago
My favourite link shortener was mug.gd, which could also manipulate the page it was being sent. I remember seeing a version of a PG essay trumpeting the benefits of learning Visual Basic over Lisp :).

It's dead now, demonstrating another problem with URL shorteners.

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A problem with 3rd party URL shorteners.

If you use and host your own, you've got things covered for as long as you need.