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If I were writing a popular URL shortener, the most useful thing I could add would be short (2 character) prefix to the random link, indicating the target type
by archgrove 17y ago
If I were writing a popular URL shortener, the most useful thing I could add would be short (2 character) prefix to the random link, indicating the target type (e.g. video is foo.bla/vd12345). This fixes a pet peeve of mine, when I follow an Mobile Safari link to Youtube on an EDGE network, causing an application shift. Also, 95% of videos on the web these days are better rendered in text, and I just want to ignore them.