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You already have that same deal with bit.ly and friends. http://bit.ly/2saifoB http://bit.ly/2saifoB http://bit.ly/2t5xNhB http://bit.ly/2t5xNhB Which is safe

You already have that same deal with bit.ly and friends. http://bit.ly/2saifoB http://bit.ly/2saifoB http://bit.ly/2t5xNhB http://bit.ly/2t5xNhB Which is safe and wonderful and which is dangerous?

Programmatic 9y ago
RequestPolicy Continued in FireFox, and perhaps other plugins that control/restrict cross-site requests, asks for permission before redirecting to superdodgysite.com and safeandwonderfulsite.com. It's not a feasible solution for the masses, but I really like the control over browsing that it gives.
eganist 9y ago
For the uninitiated: just add a + to the end of any bitly URL to expose metrics and preview the destination. http://bit.ly/2saifoB+ http://bit.ly/2saifoB+ http://bit.ly/2t5xNhB+ http://bit.ly/2t5xNhB+
- majewsky 9y ago
  Produces an empty page for me thanks to Noscript. I mean, I'm sort of used to this bullshit by now, but it's particularly egregious since this feature's audience is specifically the tinfoil crowd.
  - eganist 9y ago
    If your research suggests there's a market for a url shortener which uses no JS for analytics etc., you're quite empowered to start one.
  - sesqu 9y ago
    This feature's audience is the marketing crowd.
- sleepychu 9y ago
  This is neat, I hadn't seen it before.
OJFord 9y ago
Yes, absolutely. And on Twitter with its damn t.co hrefs even though the text is a truncated version of the real thing.