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Re:Death by a thousand likes: Facebook and Twitter are killi... by 0x4a42 on Thursday November 12, 2015 @08:14AM (#10552888)
I'd add that they allows evil persons (read SEO/Marketers) to hijack traffic by changing the target URLs.
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Re:Death by a thousand likes: Facebook and Twitter are killi... by Klathmon on Thursday November 12, 2015 @09:33AM (#10553309)
I'm surprised that we haven't seen this yet.

The second a popular link shortening service goes belly up I'm sure someone somewhere will buy the domain and setup a program to redirect all the shortened links to an ad-ridden search page.

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Re:Death by a thousand likes: Facebook and Twitter are killi... by 0x4a42 on Thursday November 12, 2015 @01:36PM (#10555143)
It happens all the time with small url shortener services. Also the owners sometimes uses cloaking to make the search engine bots get different redirection than normal users (for SEO reason).
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