0xa1baa1baa1baa1ba on Nostr: Imagine relying on url shorteners in the first place. ...

Imagine relying on url shorteners in the first place.

quoting note1vmn…8wu0

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

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/

A quick search on lore.kernel.org:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F

...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.