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I feel better about this than a commercial service I suppose. But links should be what they are—the address of a page and not the product of a cloaking and tra
by strict9 7y ago
I feel better about this than a commercial service I suppose.
But links should be what they are—the address of a page and not the product of a cloaking and tracking service that takes you to a page with added delay.
- petesaia 7y agoAgreed. FWIW, our reason for implementation is to reduce character count for SMS. Not for tracking/cloaking.
- joegahona 7y agoIs there a better solution for what to do when space is at a premium? The choices are: - Don't post the link - Post the link and let it get lopped off in the middle - Post the link without adequate context surrounding it - Create a shortened link that points to the original
- mathnmusic 7y agoIs space really at a premium though? Tweets and SMS can allow full-sized links while retaining character limits for UX reasons. It's almost 2020. Our networks can handle a few more bytes. When presenting visually (such as outdoor advertising), users should be able to simply scan the link - either as text or QR code.
- earenndil 7y agoThere's a limit to the length of an SMS, built into the protocol. 160 characters iirc.
- ThalesX 7y agoRecently set up a system, the limit was preventable by concatenating multiple messages, with the end-user not knowing this was done. By the way, we were going just a few characters into the next message so for pricing / logging issues we decided on shortening our own URL.