KBWell now we know who's REALLY in charge of the Scottish branch office. Yes, it's sleekit, slimy, scumbag "Scottish Secretary", wee Doogie Alexander.
That's you tellt, Anus.
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER TELLS ANAS SARWAR 'NOT TO COMMENTATE ON UK POLITICS'
Wen@decembr14 Exactly. But if you don’t mind please use the full url. Shortened urls are a real security and privacy risk for people without properly secured browsers. And they don’t add to the length of the toot.
@Wen
Actually, that IS the full URL (as you will see if you watch in your browser's address bar - it does not redirect). It is an archived copy of the article on archive.is, it's not the original article on The National website. This allows people to view the article who may not be able to read it on The National, where many are behind a paywall. There is no security risk. (Honestly, I know what I'm doing with this stuff. It's my business. 🙂)
Actually, that IS the full URL (as you will see if you watch in your browser's address bar - it does not redirect). It is an archived copy of the article on archive.is, it's not the original article on The National website. This allows people to view the article who may not be able to read it on The National, where many are behind a paywall. There is no security risk. (Honestly, I know what I'm doing with this stuff. It's my business. 🙂)
@decembr14 This is how I see it
When it expands you may well, but it is still a shortened url. And archive.is does give you the full one.
Just saying…
@Wen
Look, I'm not going to get into a long debate about this, but it does NOT 'expand'. That is the actual URL on the archive.is site. Yes, archive.is does state on the page the ORIGINAL article URL, which if you copy/paste it into your browser will take you to The National website, where you may or may not be able be abe to view it, depending on whether it is paywalled.
archive.is is an archiving site, not a URL shortening service. Full copies of articles are stored on archive.is servers.
@decembr14 I won’t either. And yes I know what archive.is is and I know what it does. I also understand why you have referred or archived The National site. But surely even you can understand you have posted a shortened url that redirects to something that is not clear. And can result in an archived document that is unsafe.
And yes we do security as well.
Bodhipaksa@Wen @decembr14 I have bad news. Archive.is and its sister sites seem to be run by a bad actor who is extremely vindictive and who is changing the content of archived pages. Wikipedia have stopped using links to it. It's pretty nasty stuff.
They seem to be Russian, and my own guess is that it's part of a ploy by Putin to weaken legacy media in the west. But that part might just be my paranoia.
Mr E McKissock@bodhipaksa
I started using archive.is when archive.org went offline. Not sure when that was, maybe one to two years back.
I'm back to archive.org while it lasts.
Appreciate the headsup about archive.is