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Seriously? I can't imagine a service that just returns HTTP 301 is costing Google enough to warrant shutting it down. Just making a whole slew of links across
by mcpar-land 2y ago
Seriously? I can't imagine a service that just returns HTTP 301 is costing Google enough to warrant shutting it down.
Just making a whole slew of links across the whole internet dead. Another cancelled google service on the pile, I guess.
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- cynicalsecurity 2y agoIt probably was identified as a service that doesn't bring them enough or no money/benefit at all.
- netsharc 2y agoOne could probably write a browser extension that catches clicks on goo.gl/ URLs and queries a web backend for the original URL (a backend that needs to be filled with the original short-to-full URL mapping , and so preserve the ugliness. And since we're all obsessed about money, one could put a 5 second ad before doing the actual redirect, and offer a pro subscription for redirects for many bucks a month...
- NavinF 2y ago> And since we're all obsessed about money Would ads on a service like this even pay the $5/mo VPS bill? Serious question.