@wochendaemmerung @holgi @dieKadda
Warum macht ihr euer YouTube links über bit.ly ? Macht das nicht.
#URLshorteners

@RevDrMatthewFox you forgot the https:// and also there's no need for #URLshorteners here...

@notwhatwethink : unfortunately, yes.

If I open https://virustotal.com, select "URL" and copy/paste
https:// flip.it/rIUQA6 (without the space I inserted)
in the resulting "Details" tab I see (after I've removed the privacy invasive junk starting with the question mark):

https:// www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/data-for-health/202509/the-lithium-link-to-alzheimers

Above too I inserted a space to prevent *Mastodon* from shortening the link. Without the space, this is what you and I get to see:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/data-for-health/202509/the-lithium-link-to-alzheimers

Most Mastodon instances shorten the *visual* alternative of actual links, therefore using third-party URL shorteners is not neccessary.

There are multiple advantages of using direct links instead of commercial data-collecting detours.

One of them indeed is privacy. I'm not sure whether https://flip.it and https://flipboard.com are owned by the same company, but although your and my data IS their business, who and when clicks which link should be NONE of their business.

Please help improving internet privacy (+ security + reliability) by providing the actual link you end up on (instead of using URL shorteners operated by internet leeches).

More info in ALT under the image. Questions? Please ask!

#URLshorteners #DeTours #Privacy #Security #Reliability

Depuis quelques temps je vois passer dans les timelines des liens externes en share[.]google. Ils sont créés par Discover, une fonctionnalité d'Android qui permet de partager les articles de presse qu'elle affiche dans son flux d'actualités personnalisé. Comme je ne l'utilise pas, il m'a fallu un moment pour piger… 😅

Les raccourcisseurs de liens sont inutiles sur Masto (chaque url compte pour 23 caractères). En plus, ils cachent l'adresse du lien, ce qui peut faciliter les attaques de type phishing. Et la pérennité de ce genre de services n'est pas garantie. Google vient justement d'annoncer l'abandon de goo[.]gl avant de changer d'avis en catastrophe le 1er août. Beaucoup d'autres, comme tr[.]im et su[.]pr, ont déjà disparu au fil des ans.

Si vous aimez Discover, vous ignorez peut-être que le raccourcissement automatique des liens peut être désactivé dans les préférences : « Sur votre téléphone ou tablette Android, ouvrez l'appli Google. En haut à droite, appuyez sur votre photo de profil ou initiale puis Paramètres puis Général. Désactivez l'option Raccourcir les liens vers les pages Web. »

Gérer vos préférences pour les pages Web dans l'appli Google : https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/7013866

#MastoTips #URLShorteners #LinkShorteners

@waxy Google just cannot keep itself from killing its own products, can it? I'm honestly surprised that YouTube still exists, tbh.

#GoogleKillsStuff #GoogleGraveyard #Google #URLShorteners

Which Link Shortener offers the best CPM Rates right now? Can a URL Shortener really pay $70 per 1,000 Views? Here’s What You Should Know #DigitalMarketing #SideHustle #URLShorteners #LinkShorteners #WebMonetization #Blogs

https://medium.com/@monetizarwebs/which-link-shortener-offers-the-best-cpm-rates-right-now-88f0ac19dda8

Linky-io es una plataforma digital que permite a los usuarios ganar dinero por compartir publicaciones y enlaces o aumentar el tráfico web #SideHustle #DigitalMarketing #Warez #SEO #Blogs #Descargas #URLShorteners #Blogging

https://consejos-publicitarios.blogspot.com/2025/04/linky-io-gana-dinero-por-publicar.html

@eloquence
Having posts or other indexed/indexable content refer to URL shorteners is dangerous for referrals/archiving/…:

#ArchiveTeam, the people behind e.g. the effort to archive US government websites in a hurry—before they were deleted/changed in an even greater hurry by the current administration, write about #URLShorteners:

"Such services are a ticking timebomb. If they go away, get hacked, or sell out, millions of links will be lost (see Wikipedia: Link Rot)."
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam

Los acortadores de enlaces para adultos permiten monetizar cualquier link que incluya contenido para adultos y ganar dinero con cada clic #LinkShorteners #MarketingDigital #URLShorteners #Acortadores #SEO #Blogs #CPM #Bitcoin

https://consejos-publicitarios.blogspot.com/2025/02/acortadores-de-enlaces-para-adultos.html

#Bitly links, like other #URLshorteners, can potentially hide various dangers:
1. Phishing Attacks: Redirect to fake websites that attempt to steal personal information.
2. Malware Distribution: Lead to sites that download malicious software onto your device.
3. Scams and Fraud: Direct to pages designed to trick users into providing financial or personal data.
4. Drive-By Downloads: Automatically download harmful content without user knowledge.
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@cheeaun @tanghus @benjaoming the key here is to give a light smack to ppl using url extortionists. #urlshorteners

@soatok +9001%

"#Quishing" with malicious #QRcode|s is rampant and even aided by the fact that most #QRcodes are run through #URLshorteners!

Learn How to earn money by shortening and sharing links with our guide Step-by-Step, an original way to get Passive Income and some extra money #LinkShorteners #URLShorteners #SideHustle #PassiveIncome #Blogs #WebMonetization

https://www.moneyonline.wiki/2024/10/how-to-earn-money-with-url-shorteners.html

@amin @RL_Dane +9001%

#URLshorteners result in increased #LinkRot!

Google’s URL shortener is shutting down, breaking all existing links:
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/

Here’s a cute idea: Don’t use any Google services, ever. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me 67 times, fuck you.

#google #URLshorteners #googleservices

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Next year [all goo.gl shortened links will be dead due to the planned obscolence of hyperlinks](https://9to5google.com/2024/07/18/googl-links/). Any website, blog, or social media site that used Goo.gl shortened links will find that their links are worthless from that point on.

## The SMS Era on Twitter

URL shorteners thrived for a while because Twitter had a 140 character limit. This limit was put in place to allow for all tweets to be sent as SMS. Quite quickly Twitter found that sending SMS was too expensive so they abandonned the idea but the shortened URL stuck around.

The goal of the URL shortener was to make it easy to share hyperlinks on twitter, without the link counting towards the character limit. For a while URL shorteners thrived but as I said, years ago, shortened URLs are a security risk. This is because the hyperlink could be to anything. As the hyperlink is shortened we don’t know where we’re going.

## Obsure URLs

The other drawback with shortened URLs, and this is key, is that we don’t have any idea of the site, or article, they’re pointing to. This means that in 2025, when Goo.gl links are removed, plenty of website hyperlinks will be dead links.

If I wrote a tweet, or a blog post, and I used a shortened URL then a decade from now, if someone was to follow that link they would get stranded, not knowing where I had linked, or where to look for it in places like the web archive.

It’s one thing for a content creator to remove content from a website, but when a URL is destroyed it becomes absurd. With the demise of Goo.gl links, and probably t.co shortened links an entire era of the web will be harder to make sense of.

## An Opportunity

In theory this is an opportunity for a WordPress plugin to be made, that expands goo.gl hyperlinks to their full URL ahead of the shutting off of the URL shortened resolves. The plugin wouldn’t have a long shelf life, but it would simplify the process of ensuring that the goo.gl switch off has minimal effects.

## And Finally

URL shorteners had a very short period during which they were useful. Twitter quickly made it so that URLs were shortened internally, so the need for URL shorteners declined. It’s because of that decline that Google wants to kill yet another project. I never liked URL shorteners so I’m happy to see them vanish but having said that, I think plenty of content will be difficult to find next year.

https://www.main-vision.com/richard/blog/the-demise-of-shortened-google-links/

#Google #shortened #url #urlShorteners

@feistyduck : _WHY_ are you using an URL-shortening service on Mastodon - of all places on infosec.exchange?!?!

https:⁄⁄buff.ly⁄WTF

What _IS_ your expertise?

#buff_ly #URLShorteners #URL_Shorteners

Lista de las mejores alternativas a Linkvertise con los acortadores de enlaces que ofrecen las tasas de pago en CPM más altas del mercado #URLShorteners #LinkShorteners #DigitalMarketing #Acortadores #CPM

https://consejos-publicitarios.blogspot.com/2024/04/alternativas-linkvertise.html

Review of ICutLink, an URL shortener founded in 2018 and based in Poland, which allows users to make money by shortening and sharing links #DigitalMarketing #UrlShorteners #LinkShorteners #SideHustle #SocialMedia #MoneyOnline

https://www.moneyonline.wiki/2024/03/icutlink-adult-url-shortener-review.html

@thenewoil

T.🌮. Is just X's 🦐✝️ competing with #malvertising network #meta

#infosec #URLshorteners