The problems with url shorteners

Re:The problems with url shorteners by pclark on Friday April 03, 2009 @06:47PM (#545790)

thats a horrific web service.

Whats the solution for these services?

Always embed the shortened url domain in the shortened url? eg: http://is.gd/omgponi/4d

de-centralize it so sites can either a) easily provide services to shrink urls within their code base, or b) just use shorter url maps

wait for google/big corp to offer a solution that you "know" won't die tomorrow.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The problems with url shorteners by tlrobinson on Friday April 03, 2009 @08:09PM (#545865)

For sites like this (and Digg bar, Facebook bar, etc)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framekiller

    <script type="text/javascript">
        if (top!=self) top.location.href=self.location.href;
    </script>

Adding this to my personal site right now..

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The problems with url shorteners by joshu on Saturday April 04, 2009 @04:27AM (#546198)

This is handy.

[ Parent | on HN ]