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Google’s shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month
https://www.theverge.com/news/713125/google-url-shortener-links-shutdown-deadline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_URL_Shortener

I cannot say if it is a trusted source. Here, they say that 3.6 billion URLs have been shortened. https://dub.co/blog/googl-links

A single small server could have served as an HTTP redirector, for lifetime.
Nice job, Google!
#webarchiving

Google’s shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month

Google will deprecate all links created with its URL shortener on August 25th, 2025. All links made with the tool will return a 404 error message after that date.

The Verge
Jul 25, 2025 at 5:33amWeb
Show threadMistyJul 25, 2025
@raffaele Right? The cost to keep these URLs going would have been so low
Show threadraffaeleJul 25, 2025
@misty I just woke up and I can't do math, but Claude speculated for me. A ~892 GB SQLite file could keep goo.gl (shortened id, full url, creation date). I could host it on my Raspberry
Show threadMistyJul 25, 2025
@raffaele Really just seems like Google prioritizes their own convenience for not needing to manage this over even the simplest things they could do to keep it available
Show threadCassandrichJul 25, 2025
@misty @raffaele But they did it at GoOgLe ScAlE so converting it to a reasonable form that doesn't require KooBerNeTeeZ and paying $50k/mo on SeRvErLe$$ would be a huge undertaking and the chatbot they asked to just vibe code it didn't vomit out a working solution.
Show threadwebhatJul 25, 2025
@dalias I've set up a filter to warn me about people posting stuff like "asked ChatGPT". It's only hitting a few toots a week, I really need to step up my filtering game
Show threadejimJul 26, 2025
@raffaele @misty
I think a good way to create access and store shortened URLs and redirects would be a with a hash-table
Show threadFurbland's Very Cool Mastodon™Jul 25, 2025
@raffaele just a heads up: if you wanna help save what’s there you can use a #ArchiveTeam warrior http://warrior.archiveteam.org and set it to work on the goo.gl project
ArchiveTeam Warrior

Show threadChris MayesJul 26, 2025

@raffaele That explains why Archive Team has started making goo.gl their chosen project lately.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Goo.gl

goo.gl - Archiveteam