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Nicely demonstrates why outsourcing link shorteners is risky - they go out of business and your link is dead.

• vlan121 4y ago
  Infact this is a problem that we'll face someday.
  • comprev 4y ago
    vb.ly is an example of this happening. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/oct/08/bitly-libya https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/oct/08/bitly-lib...
• neilv 4y ago
  This was predicted and warned about when the link shorteners first appeared, decades ago. But people keep using them (for a while for Twitter, but maybe mainly for analytics, though they could self-host and accomplish the same thing).
• eythian 4y ago
  There is an archiveteam project to index all the shorteners and where they direct to. I think it's the default project if you're running the warrior and there's nothing more important going on. https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=URLTeam https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=URLTeam
• deleted 4y ago
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