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Google is turning off its URL shortener – breaking every link that ever used it
- gnabgib 2y agoShutting down: (128 points, 6 years ago, 55 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16719272 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16719272 (81 points, 6 years ago, 56 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16722817 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16722817 (59 points, 6 years ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16902752 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16902752
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- notRobot 2y agoIt is unclear to me if this only impacts developer URLs (are those a different thing?), or if all user created short URLs will stop working too. If it's the latter, then a lot of links on the old web will break, and that will be so sad. This is the latest announcement in question: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/ https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-li... In 2018 they said goo.gl links won't stop working: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/goo-gl/246569/ https://www.searchenginejournal.com/goo-gl/246569/
- dragonwriter 2y agoThe developer focus is because Google has considered it a developer offering, but this applies to all goo.gl links, AFAICT; they explicitly say they are turning off the link serving function at that domain.