🆕 blog! “Never use a URL shortening service - even if you own it”
The Guardian launched its online adventures back in 1999. At some point, they started using the name "Guardian Unlimited". Hey, the dot com boom made us all do crazy things! As part of that branding, they proudly used the domain GU.com Over time, the branding faded and GU.…
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@Edent FYI, you have a couple of different misspellings of 'Guardian' in the article: 'Gaurdian', 'Grauniad' and 'Guarrdian'.
I agree with the article though; URL shorteners are annoying at best, and an attack vector at worst...
The only use I've had for them were in my console-based chat client, where I would display them alongside the full URLs because at that time it didn't support clickable URLs when the URL was column-wrapped. But the shortened URL therefore was intended to be short-lived, entirely under my control, and not intended to be public-facing.
Terence Eden
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