Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month

Re:Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month by edent on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:42AM (#44684458)

The full URl to the original page.

You aren't responsible if things go offline. No more than if a publisher stops reprinting books and the library copies all get eaten by rats.

A reader can assess the URl for trustworthiness (is it scam.biz or legitimate_news.com) look at the path to hazard a guess at the metadata and contents, and - finally - look it up in an archive.

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Re:Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month by firefax on Friday July 25, 2025 @11:54AM (#44684610)

>The full URl to the original page.

I thought that was the standard in academia? I've had reviewers chastise me when I did not use wayback machine to archive a citation and link to that since listing a "date retrieved" doesn't do jack if there's no IA copy.

Short links were usually in addition to full URLS, and more in conference presentations than the papers themselves.

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Re:Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month by afandian on Saturday July 26, 2025 @04:29PM (#44696719)

See also memento https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1112

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Re:Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month by grapesodaaaaa on Friday July 25, 2025 @02:08PM (#44686276)

I think this is the only real answer. Shorteners might work for things like old Twitter where characters were a premium, but I would rather see the whole URL.

We’ve learned over the years that they can be unreliable, security risks, etc.

I just don’t see a major use-case for them anymore.

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