 Google continues its epic run of reminding people why you should never depend on their services. They just announced that links that used https://goo.gl/* shortener will break after August 25th 2025. You’d think Google of all companies would respect not breaking links. https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/ 8 comments
 @carnage4life @thisismissem  @carnage4life This is a subset of the general proposition: Link shorteners suck and nobody should ever use them for anything. See, e.g., @pluralistic writing against link shorteners all the way back in 2009: shit like this is why I fucking detest having an android phone now, and it feels awful because I was a happy android enthusiast some years ago.  @carnage4life tbh im surprised they kept the links going this long, knowing them, considering they turned off making new ones in 2018 @carnage4life I was curious about those "Firebase dynamic links" they mention as the alternative to their old url shortener, and... what a trainwreck. |
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@carnage4life Google has been trying to get rid of URLs for years. e.g. https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/15/google-confirms-experiment-to-remove-full-address-from-url-bar-in-chrome-details-opt-out-mechanism/