Re:Google Warns: bit.ly Links Are Unsafe
by justincormack on Saturday October 25, 2014 @09:06AM
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If they are temporary redirects, so not cached, they can do metrics from the server logs perfectly well.
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Re:Google Warns: bit.ly Links Are Unsafe
by acquiHire2014 on Saturday October 25, 2014 @12:21PM
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Not if the intermediary, say, Twitter, de-shortens the link once, and then sends all the real traffic to the cached destination URLS. Not that they do that at the moment.