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Re:Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month by djfivyvusn on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:17AM (#44684114)
The vandalism was relying on Google.
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Re:Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month by toomuchtodo on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:17AM (#44684122)
You'd think people would learn. Ah, well. Hopefully we can do better from lessons learned.
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Re:Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month by api on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:23AM (#44684189)
The web is a crap architecture for permanent references anyway. A link points to a server, not e.g. a content hash.

The simplicity of the web is one of its virtues but also leaves a lot on the table.

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