dantheclamman to TechnologyEnglish · 1 year agoGoogle is finally shutting down its link shortener after killing it off years agowww.androidpolice.comexternal-linkmessage-square25linkfedilinkarrow-up1179arrow-down12
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minus-squareAceBonobolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up94·1 year agoMore data rot. I wonder how many millions of links are about to disappear.
minus-squareVictorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·1 year agoI really hope nobody used shortened links in href attributes. That would be stupid.
minus-squaremagic_lobster_party@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up46·1 year agoDon’t worry. There’s a high chance at least one critical software has a shortened link somewhere in their infrastructure.
minus-squareqprimed@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·1 year agooh, god! quick! somebody contact boeing!
minus-squareDeebster@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoI 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.
minus-squareVictorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year ago authoring HTML often means filling in a form. What, like, DreamWeaver style? Sounds cray-cray to me (as a web developer).
minus-squareDeebster@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI’m thinking more like using a CMS or Wordpress by people who don’t consider themselves developers.
minus-squarenyan@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoOn this planet, it seems that there is nothing so stupid that you won’t find someone doing it, alas.
minus-squareVictorlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoYou know it to be true. This is the way.
minus-squareqprimed@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoas if millions of voices links voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
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.
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
voiceslinksvoices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.