I never used them for shortening the URL but it helped to give a human understandable name to a link. For example, if I'm linking to a Google Doc, then I can ei

I never used them for shortening the URL but it helped to give a human understandable name to a link. For example, if I'm linking to a Google Doc, then I can either share the base64(?) link that Google autogenerates, or share short.link/insert-name-here.