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Bitly Changes: Link-Shortening, Now with Advertising (tedium.co)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My take: don't use short links whenever possible. Them being open source doesn't protect from going out of business and choosing not to renew the domain, breaking all existing links. Heck, it doesn't even guarantee they won't change their minds later and choose to run different, non-open software on their server which snoops on or adds ads to people's links.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah that's better, but if someone were insistent on it there it is, i guess.