Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services

Re:Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for... by ryanswapp on Friday April 15, 2016 @01:37PM (#11506172)

Speaking of short urls, am I the only one that refuses to click on them? I hate that I can't see where the link is going to take me.

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Re:Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for... by ymse on Friday April 15, 2016 @01:49PM (#11506271)

I sometimes "curl -I" first to check what it redirects to before clicking. Would love a mobile app that registered as the default app for various URL shorteners and did the same.

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Re:Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for... by ryanswapp on Saturday April 16, 2016 @01:26AM (#11509444)

Nice! I didn't know you could do that.

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Re:Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for... by soared on Friday April 15, 2016 @03:25PM (#11506954)

I've never heard this before. What would be an example of somewhere you don't want to go? I've never clicked a shortened URL and had unexpected results.

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Re:Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for... by ryanswapp on Saturday April 16, 2016 @01:25AM (#11509440)

Most of the time it happens on Twitter. Someone will tweet a bitly link with some enticing headline but I refuse to click it because I don't know where the link is taking me. Perhaps I'm just overly cautious...

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Re:Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for... by jessaustin on Saturday April 16, 2016 @11:05AM (#11510835)

I'm surprised that no one responded to this dubious claim with a link to e.g. goatse...

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