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The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible (creepylink.com)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 3 points 6 hours ago

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.