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I tried buddy π
I guess there's a pretty short lifespan on these links haha
Well, here it is https://youtu.be/Gu_hxO9iDi8
We killed it!
Lemmy hug of death
What even is the point of URL shorteners? I always understood it as a Twitter thing, but I see them more outside of Twitter.
Easier to type when used on posters and other media where you can't simply copypaste
I think sometimes it gives people analytics on how many people click the link when the link is to something they themselves don't control. But I'm not entirely sure if that's a common service shorteners offer.
They also sometimes give you the ability to change what the link points to which is great if you send out a link only to realise it went to the wrong place after the fact.
I find it handy for writing down a URL on paper
Okay, grandpa.
JK
Paper may be old-fashioned but I need something light for the carrier pigeon
aesthetics
When sharing links with people in places where thereβs a character limit or to avoid polluting visuals.
Also, when sharing like orally or showing it to someone else when you have no other way to communicate it: ex, the link of a shared cloud file
Infuriatingly, URL shortners are often used in QR codes because they have a character limit-ish (longer strings make for more detailed QR codes, which are harder to scan from further away so it's a trade-off). but if the QR points to a shortened link then it's more difficult to assess where a QR code is pointing without blindly following the link.
My biggest bugbear relating to this is the lack of a short text alternative for QR codes, especially with long URLs.
If the URL is too long to fit into a QR code, then it's also too long for me to type in manually!
I think I like an alternative that uses full words instead of a string of no sense symbols and mixed case letters.
Something like what What 3 Words does but for short URLs. That would be easy to convey and type
That's a very good idea.
Beside the number of permutations it gives, another benefit of using three words is they could form the border of the QR code, with the fourth side being the domain name
Yessss
In Germany, we have https://fckaf.de/
A very good service by DIE PARTEI
Of course it would be them. Love it. Thanks for the link!
I totally believe this works, but there's no way I'm clicking on any of those links
I expect most of them are Rickrolls.
A similar one here: https://phishyurl.com/
This is just straight-up a better version of what OP linked
Holy shit, they're not messing around, and that's with the "Normal" setting
Also love the alleged directory structure
Absolutely scary π¬ But link "shortener" may be the wrong name in this case
I don't think it purports to be a shortener, just a susener
Exactly what I expected. Thanks for not letting me down.
Looks like it got too creepy for its own good.
Link shorteners and redirectors, especially new and lesser-known ones tend to get caught in the fray with things like Google Safe Browsing (which FF uses as well) and Smart Screen.
It's because the original/shortened link gets reported and not the real/destination site. Then the domain (of the shortener/redirector) gets flagged, instead of the real site.
This happened to me at work this very week, with a redirector service that's a part of our email security stack. FF and Chrome were both blocking links that were safe, because the redirector service itself was classified as sus.
Based on these ads, I do not trust the site anyway.
Love the concept, though.