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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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