I constantly see short URLs used for, e.g., Facebook links, where the URL isn't displayed anyway, but rather a preview. I abhor them, because they add a lot of

I constantly see short URLs used for, e.g., Facebook links, where the URL isn't displayed anyway, but rather a preview. I abhor them, because they add a lot of time to first displayed content on mobile -- on the order of 5 seconds. I also strongly suspect that a lot of them are being used more for analytics than URL shortening, which also annoys me to no end.