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My biggest problem with short URLs is they appear spammy. I can't look at it and decide whether it's safe. Just yesterday I received a text from a shortcode wi
by treesknees 4y ago
My biggest problem with short URLs is they appear spammy. I can't look at it and decide whether it's safe.
Just yesterday I received a text from a shortcode with a "bby.me/XXXX" URL saying my Best Buy order was canceled. Turns out it was a legit order I placed nearly 6 months ago and was on backorder that I forgot about.
I'd love for a shortening service to offer an "unfurl" tool where I could paste in the URL, and it shows me what the redirected site is without clicking it and potentially activating their clickthrough tracking.
- bithaze 4y ago> I'd love for a shortening service to offer an "unfurl" tool where I could paste in the URL, and it shows me what the redirected site is without clicking it and potentially activating their clickthrough tracking. For Bitly, at least, you can add a plus sign to the end of a short URL to preview what the destination URL is. I don't know if other URL shorteners have something similar.
- TimLeland 4y agoYou are in luck I also built a link unshortener :) https://linkunshorten.com/ https://linkunshorten.com/
- password4321 4y agoThis one seems the worst: https://github.com/zws-im/zws https://github.com/zws-im/zws (Shorten URLs with invisible spaces.) I played around with it and there was some seriously sketchy interstitial stuff going on.