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FYI: Link shorteners are frowned upon on HN.
by staunch 12y ago
FYI: Link shorteners are frowned upon on HN.
- DaFranker 12y agoCurious about why. I'd understand a social stigma against ad-based redirection services, but does that translate into a frown against all shorteners somehow? Or is there some other cause?
- staunch 12y agoThey obscure the destination, track users, and break at some point in the future leaving a bad link in the archives.
- DaFranker 12y agoThanks. Some of these aren't properties exclusive to redirection sites... but I'll readily admit they're very much standard features there, while mostly not too common elsewhere.