Bitly Changes: Link-Shortening, Now With Advertising
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Bitly, the link-shortening service long used by millions, decides it’s going to place an ad between you and your link. Don’t like it? It’ll cost ya.
    • Zagorath
      3•16 hours ago

      My take: don’t use short links whenever possible. Them being open source doesn’t protect from going out of business and choosing not to renew the domain, breaking all existing links. Heck, it doesn’t even guarantee they won’t change their minds later and choose to run different, non-open software on their server which snoops on or adds ads to people’s links.

      • fxomtM
        2•16 hours ago

        Yeah that’s better, but if someone were insistent on it there it is, i guess.

  • @[email protected]English
    11•1 day ago

    What surprises me is that they didn’t do it sooner. Maybe they finally ran out of vulture capital money, but even if they were still funded, it would have happened anyways. Enshitification is entropy for businesses, it’s an inevitable force of nature.

  • Optional
    3•1 day ago

    So a bad idea is made worse? Cool.

    Cool cool cool.