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Google is finally shutting down its link shortener after killing it off years ago
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
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More data rot. I wonder how many millions of links are about to disappear.
as if millions of ~~voices~~ ~~links~~ voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
I really hope nobody used shortened links in href attributes. That would be stupid.
On this planet, it seems that there is nothing so stupid that you won't find someone doing it, alas.
You know it to be true. This is the way.
Don’t worry. There’s a high chance at least one critical software has a shortened link somewhere in their infrastructure.
But, that's what I am worried about.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's some service that gave out shortened links by default and people just used those everywhere. Lots of people are clueless about how URLs work, and authoring HTML often means filling in a form.
What, like, DreamWeaver style? Sounds cray-cray to me (as a web developer).
I'm thinking more like using a CMS or Wordpress by people who don't consider themselves developers.
Ah, right. Yeah...
oh, god! quick! somebody contact boeing!