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[–] [email protected] 82 points 10 months ago (41 children)

Nobody should be using URL shorteners in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Why is that? They can be useful - especially if you are including links in something like a print publication

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

Privacy: trackers, trackers, trackers Security: you can't know where you would be taken with a short link. A legit website? A malicious website? Who knows.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ygrauer/2016/04/20/five-reasons-you-should-stop-shortening-urls/

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