Short URLs are nice for some things. QR codes for example work better the shorter a URL is. Nothing's wrong with normal URLs. Every post on my website can be r

Short URLs are nice for some things. QR codes for example work better the shorter a URL is. Nothing's wrong with normal URLs. Every post on my website can be reached by a single decimal number appended to the end of the domain. But this requires every website on the internet to care about having URLs of reasonable length. URL shorteners allow a third party to put a bandaid over the problem.