I once ran my own personal URL shortener but eventually killed it because it wasn't that useful, but I kept the links working, and in fact they still work _to this day_ because I converted them from a dynamic PHP web application to a little list of nginx URL redirects.

Google have comparatively infinite budget and can't figure out how to be a respectful web citizen.
social.kernel.org/objects/3912…

Jonathan Corbet

2024-07-18 22:08:06

Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:

developers.googleblog.com/en/g…

A quick search on lore.kernel.org:

lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%…

...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.

Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available

Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.

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