If you want to hear of one of the worst URL forwarding "services," Facebook is it. They got so bothered by people stripping all the tracking data from links the

If you want to hear of one of the worst URL forwarding "services," Facebook is it. They got so bothered by people stripping all the tracking data from links they were sharing that they actually embedded all their tracking within the primary portion of the URL. If you want the truly original URL the only way to get it is to abuse one of their APIs.