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I'm surprised that we haven't seen this yet. The second a popular link shortening service goes belly up I'm sure someone somewhere will buy the domain and setu

I'm surprised that we haven't seen this yet. The second a popular link shortening service goes belly up I'm sure someone somewhere will buy the domain and setup a program to redirect all the shortened links to an ad-ridden search page.

0x4a42 11y ago
It happens all the time with small url shortener services. Also the owners sometimes uses cloaking to make the search engine bots get different redirection than normal users (for SEO reason).