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A comment on Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP.

Re:Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortene... by intenscia on Monday September 12, 2016 @10:32AM (#12479971)
Congratulations on the release but I can just discourage people to use URL shorteners. They obfuscate key information, are potentially a security risk as a result, require extra http requests and what happens in the future when you turn the service off? A trend I've never fancied.
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Re:Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortene... by corobo on Monday September 12, 2016 @02:08PM (#12482119)
On the other hand if you're linking to something you don't control and you need to track stats then use branded URL shorteners.

Sometimes there are valid use cases for things.

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