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People use bit.ly specifically to shorten long URLs; for example, URLs with long Google analytics parameters (e.g. &utm=...) so that would defeat the purpose of
by frandroid 10y ago
People use bit.ly specifically to shorten long URLs; for example, URLs with long Google analytics parameters (e.g. &utm=...) so that would defeat the purpose of using bit.ly.
- drited 10y agoI should explain what I meant further: I wasn't suggesting that bit.ly prevent people from shortening links, rather I was suggesting that they filter for links like the one mentioned in the article which are clearly intended to trick people into thinking they are clicking a link to a Google domain when in fact it is a link to the nefarious party's server. See the long link in the article for what I mean. It looked like a google.com link but in fact was a link to a.tk domain.