Those are two examples where the URL is canonical and shouldn't be shortened. There are probably many, many more. Very often the only place you can find the da

Those are two examples where the URL is canonical and shouldn't be shortened. There are probably many, many more. Very often the only place you can find the date of a news story is in the URL due to them using some version of Wordpress but not putting the date in the article past a certain age (F YOU, Guardian). Google has clearly thought this through and decided that whatever they're getting out of this is FAR MORE IMPORTANT than the best interests of their users. And that should make everyone suspicious.