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There's not much room for improvement there. However, the page I am writing this reply on could - it's: <https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=17913014&goto=ite
by pferde 8y ago
There's not much room for improvement there. However, the page I am writing this reply on could - it's: <https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=17913014&goto=item%3Fid%3D17911009%2317913014> https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=17913014&goto=item%3Fi..., which is getting ugly.
The prime candidates for URL deuglification would be sites like amazon.com:
https://www.amazon.com/Bushnell-Falcon-133410-Binoculars-Black/dp/B00004TBLW?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=e783a840-dc64-47f3-93ad-50aaa33da140&pf_rd_r=0YK0VWY7DVGGMPH0EG9E https://www.amazon.com/Bushnell-Falcon-133410-Binoculars-Bla...
I mean, what the hell are all those identifiers, and why should anyone besides amazon.com's internal staff even see them?
- merb 8y agoactually your amazon link is a reflink, the whole amazon link is just: https://www.amazon.com/Bushnell-Falcon-133410-Binoculars-Black/dp/B00004TBLW https://www.amazon.com/Bushnell-Falcon-133410-Binoculars-Bla... which is basically the product name + model number + asin ASIN: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Standard_Identification_Number https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Standard_Identification... Link can also be shortened to just the asin. (ASIN = ISBN applied to everything)
- pferde 8y agoThanks for the info, but the link I pasted was taken by just going to www.amazon.com front page, and copying the link for the "Deal of the day" product I saw there. So it's the link all customers see when they click on the products, and no amount of explaining what it is makes it go away, or justifies it being there in the first place. Still, Amazon is far from the worst offender. I have seen kilometer long URLs that can span several lines of text.