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Honestly I have no idea. But if they were having issues with spam hosted on github.com, what problems does deactivating git.io solve? The spam still exists and
by baisq 4y ago
Honestly I have no idea. But if they were having issues with spam hosted on github.com, what problems does deactivating git.io solve? The spam still exists and it's hosted using their service. Just the link is a bit longer.
- Sharlin 4y agoThe short URL doesn't tell you where it's going to lead, so can be used to mislead people.
- hiptobecubic 4y agoThis is how all shorteners work, isn't it? Otherwise we just call them "links."
- Sharlin 4y agoYes, but it’s presumably why Github doesn’t want to maintain their own.