News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available.

Re:Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available by hackeratrandom on Thursday July 18, 2024 @02:51PM (#40998602)
"We understand the transition away from using goo.gl short links may cause some inconvenience." ... Hum, ya ... Non tech people might have made lots of links in legacy internal doc's, email conversations and other reference maternal ... Maybe even a thing called "Paper" ;-)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available by kabanka on Friday July 19, 2024 @02:19AM (#41002416)
Maybe they should publish the mapping of shortened url -> target page, for at least not losing all access to the legacy links
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available by lostmsu on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:02AM (#41002693)
That would expose private links
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available by elcomet on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:46AM (#41003033)
They could publish it with public key encryption, so you can verify existing links without seeing all the links
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available by kabanka on Friday July 19, 2024 @03:43AM (#41003000)
Sure, but it seems solve-able (even decoding urls one by one with captcha is better than nothing)
[ Parent | on HN ]