Technology @lemmy.world dantheclamman @lemmy.world 4 mo. ago

Google is finally shutting down its link shortener after killing it off years ago

www.androidpolice.com Google is finally shutting down its link shortener after killing it off years ago

Google has just announced the sunset date for shortened goo.gl links, and there's still time to migrate

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More data rot. I wonder how many millions of links are about to disappear.
- I really hope nobody used shortened links in href attributes. That would be stupid.
  
  Don’t worry. There’s a high chance at least one critical software has a shortened link somewhere in their infrastructure.
  
  oh, god! quick! somebody contact boeing!
  
  I wouldn't be surprised if there's some service that gave out shortened links by default and people just used those everywhere. Lots of people are clueless about how URLs work, and authoring HTML often means filling in a form.
  
  On this planet, it seems that there is nothing so stupid that you won't find someone doing it, alas.
- as if millions of ~~voices~~ ~~links~~ voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Every month Google reminds us not to depend on their services.
Another one bites the dust.
- I skim this page every time it is posted, but this time scrolling the whole length of it even as fast as I can gave me depression. 295 projects, almost half of them killed in the last 5 years.
  
  I don't think any other company is based on trial and error to the same degree as Google.
  It's kind of funny, since Google was originally based on hiring the greatest capacities within their field. So you should think they were pretty smart.
  But trial and error is actually the LEAST INTELLIGENT method to solve a problem.
Who could have foreseen this
So goo.le no longer work ?
- Yes. Massive link rot incoming
  
  goo.gle will continue to work beyond 2025
  
  goo.gl will not
I've only ever seen goog.le looks used in spam and phishing emails, so I'm not particularly sad about this

Of course, there's roughly eighty million other folks who think they've each done a short link provider better, somehow, so this won't make much of a difference beyond not relying on the bots at Google to deal with abuse problems.
They have one? I just use tinyurl.

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