More data rot. I wonder how many millions of links are about to disappear.
I really hope nobody used shortened links in href attributes. That would be stupid.
Don’t worry. There’s a high chance at least one critical software has a shortened link somewhere in their infrastructure.
But, that's what I am worried about.
oh, god! quick! somebody contact boeing!
I wouldn't be surprised if there's some service that gave out shortened links by default and people just used those everywhere. Lots of people are clueless about how URLs work, and authoring HTML often means filling in a form.
authoring HTML often means filling in a form.
What, like, DreamWeaver style? Sounds cray-cray to me (as a web developer).
I'm thinking more like using a CMS or Wordpress by people who don't consider themselves developers.
Ah, right. Yeah...
On this planet, it seems that there is nothing so stupid that you won't find someone doing it, alas.
You know it to be true. This is the way.
as if millions of ~~voices~~ ~~links~~ voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Every month Google reminds us not to depend on their services.
Who could have foreseen this
So goo.le no longer work ?
Yes. Massive link rot incoming
goo.gle will continue to work beyond 2025
goo.gl will not
I've only ever seen goog.le looks used in spam and phishing emails, so I'm not particularly sad about this
Of course, there's roughly eighty million other folks who think they've each done a short link provider better, somehow, so this won't make much of a difference beyond not relying on the bots at Google to deal with abuse problems.
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