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Wer einen kostenlosen #Bitly-Account nutzt - und das dürfte das weit überwiegende Gros der Userbase sein -, muss künftig mit fünf (5!) Links pro Monat auskommen.

Aktuell sind monatlich 10.000 Link-Kürzungen möglich.

Ein harter Einschnitt. :D Aber klar, irgendwie muss die recht sinnfreie Integration von #ChatGPT und #Claude ja refinanziert werden.

Wer einen kostenlosen #Bitly-Account nutzt - und das dürfte das weit überwiegende Gros der Userbase sein -, muss künftig mit fünf (5!) Links pro Monat auskommen.

Aktuell sind monatlich 10.000 Link-Kürzungen möglich.

Ein harter Einschnitt. :D Aber klar, irgendwie muss die recht sinnfreie Integration von #ChatGPT und #Claude ja refinanziert werden.

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Welcome to my Blogger ✨
分享简单又好吃的 Food & Drink Recipes 🍛🥤

Di sini kamu bisa temukan:
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从家常料理到健康饮品，一起轻松学做菜!

👉 Kunjungi & follow sekarang:
https://monetisasikonten.blogspot.com/
#Bitly
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https://bit.ly/m/KREATOR
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🔗 Share ke teman pecinta kuliner
🚀 Let’s cook & grow together! 一起下厨吧!

#Blogger

@RADAR Nutzung von #shortlink-Dienst #bitly völlig unnötig, liefert alle Leser dieser US-Firma aus🙄

Hier der echte Link:
https://radar.products.fiz-karlsruhe.de/de/nachricht/radar-release-v123-import-von-gitlab-repositorys

@RADAR Nutzung von #shortlink-Dienst #bitly völlig unnötig, liefert alle Leser dieser US-Firma aus🙄

Hier der echte Link:
https://radar.products.fiz-karlsruhe.de/de/nachricht/radar-release-v123-import-von-gitlab-repositorys

@RADAR Nutzung von #shortlink-Dienst #bitly völlig unnötig, liefert alle Leser dieser US-Firma aus🙄

Hier der echte Link:
https://radar.products.fiz-karlsruhe.de/de/nachricht/radar-release-v123-import-von-gitlab-repositorys

@RADAR Nutzung von #shortlink-Dienst #bitly völlig unnötig, liefert alle Leser dieser US-Firma aus🙄

Hier der echte Link:
https://radar.products.fiz-karlsruhe.de/de/nachricht/radar-release-v123-import-von-gitlab-repositorys

One Open-source Project Daily

The de facto standard self hosted URL shortener in PHP

https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS

#1ospd #opensource #bitly #hacktoberfest #php #shorturl #shortenurls #shortener #urlshortener #urlshortner #yourls

Anonymous URL Shortener

Grazie ad Anonymous URL Shortener possiamo creare degli short link totalmente anonimi. È un progetto open source e gratuito!

LINK --> https://www.lealternative.net/2020/10/05/anonymous-url-shortener/

#OltreGoogle #Strumentiavanzati #anonimo #bitly #shortlink #shortener #tinyurl

Help Me Fediverse Hive Mind! I have some old bit.ly links embedded in QR codes that used to point to a page I'd redirect from. Those pages got lost in a CMS transition, but I'd like to keep using the QRs (they're in a tough-to-change location) and could remake the pages if I knew the addresses. But, the bit.ly links now just return a 404 error. Is there any way to figure out where they are trying to point? Edit: link checkers/unshorteners do not help. #fedihelp #404 #bitly #redirect #PleaseBoost

I just figured out I couldn't log into #Bitly because I was on a VPN.
But instead of it telling me, "We don't allow access through VPNs," it said, "A mysterious error occurred. Please… try again."
And when I tried to create a new account, instead of saying I couldn't do that through a VPN, it claimed I was using an invalid email address.
Hey, web devs, VPNs are good #opsec for everyone. Stop blocking VPNs. Or if you insist, TELL PEOPLE THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
#WebDev #infosec #VPN #fail

Tried to log into #Bitly this morning to shorten a link. When I click the login button I get back, "A mysterious error occurred. Please give us a moment to investigate, then try again."
Tried resetting my password. The password reset said it worked, but still getting the same login error afterward.
Tried to create a new account. It claims I'm using an invalid email address no matter what email address I specify, including a Gmail address and an mit.edu address.
Anybody else having trouble?

@FirewallDragons For the first few minutes of you talking about the Bitly story, I was thinking to myself, "I could've sworn that it already does that." Eventually I realized that no, that's Adfly I was thinking of. The story is that Bitly has degraded into Adfly.

If the actual implementation turns out to be accurate to what you read out on the show, it will be trivially easy for a browser extension to automatically and instantly skip you straight to the destination URL. The only question is whether or not uBlock Origin, specifically, will have (or add) the ability to do it.

#adBlock #adFly #bitly #enshittification #uBlockOrigin #webExtension

So now that bit.ly is showing ads, if you need a URL shortener, #lynx is decent and #accessible and easy to host. And before you tell me that we don't need URL shorteners anymore and how they're a security risk, I need them for:
1. Business cards, slides, signs, and other physical objects that need a URL. While most phones can scan QR Codes, you can't read them out loud for #blind folks. If you're doing a presentation, "scan the QR code on screen" isn't good enough. You need to have a URL that you can speak and another human can remember. Yes, NFC is a thing, but it doesn't solve that problem.
2. Places that still don't allow URLs (LinkedIn) or where long URLs are awkward to work with (text-only emails, the terminal, etc.)
3. Times (like a phone call) where I need to tell someone a URL using the noises that come from my face-parts

Find it here: getlynx.dev/
#a11y #bitly

#Business #Reviews
Goodbye Bitly · New preview page with ads is a major step back https://ilo.im/162cz3

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#Bitly #UrlShortener #Service #Advertising #Pricing #Marketing #SocialMedia #Website #Webpage #LandingPage

ACHTUNG! #Bitly ändert seine #AGB!

Einer der meistgenutzen Dienste für Kurz-URLs beginnt jetzt durch eine Sprungseite zwischen Aufruf und Weiterleitung, den kostenlosen Teil ds Dienstes zu kommerzialisieren.

Den Nutzern wird #Werbung angezeigt und jeder der diese Kurz-URLs nutzt, spammt damit seine Nutzer voll und spült #Werbegelder in das Unternehmen.

#Advertising #Kommerzialisierung #Werbezwang

Самый популярный сокращатель ссылок #Bitly теперь будет показывать рекламу при переходе по сокращённым ссылкам bit.ly. Чтобы избавиться от рекламы, компания предлагает создателям сокращённых ссылок оплатить подписку. Но большинство ссылок bit.ly были созданы очень давно, раскиданы по всему интернету и забыты. А ещё их походу нельзя удалить.

https://support.bitly.com/hc/en-us/articles/32874287800333-Why-are-there-ads-on-my-links

А помните сокращатель ссылок Adfly? Он тоже показывал рекламу (УЖАСНУЮ рекламу), но хотя бы делился доходами с создателями ссылок. А Bitly будет забирать все доходы себе, по их словам, чтобы обеспечить сервис бесплатным пользователям.

#ads #реклама

So apparently bit.ly links created under the free plan will now show a "destination preview" which is an "interstitial page that includes a preview of the link destination and an ad".

https://support.bitly.com/hc/en-us/articles/32874287800333-Why-are-there-ads-on-my-links

#bitly #internet #TheWeb #ads #advertising

#Bitly links, like other #URLshorteners, can potentially hide various dangers:
1. Phishing Attacks: Redirect to fake websites that attempt to steal personal information.
2. Malware Distribution: Lead to sites that download malicious software onto your device.
3. Scams and Fraud: Direct to pages designed to trick users into providing financial or personal data.
4. Drive-By Downloads: Automatically download harmful content without user knowledge.
(1/2)

The irony of TicketMaster's breach notification email
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/06/the-irony-of-ticketmasters-breach-notification-email/

TicketMaster has joined the long list of companies to lose their customers' information. As is common, they sent out an email to warn poor sods like me who might have had our details snaffled.

Their email is particularly poor and contains a delightful example of how not to communicate issues like this. See if you can spot it:

In the same breath as warning their customers to look out for suspicious links in emails, they include two obfuscated Bit.ly links!

Anyone can create a Bit.ly link and give it any name.

For example - https://bit.ly/TicketMaster-DataSecurity-Incident.

I've written many times before about Bit.ly and why you should not use it. It stops users understanding where they're going, it trains users to ignore what a link says, it exposes your users to unwanted tracking, and it puts your links under the control of a 3rd party.

If you are ever confronted with a Bit.ly link, add a + to the end of it to see its destination - for example https://bit.ly/TU-sign-up+.

Companies need to do much better. Professional crisis communications writers need to understand the Internet and how to foster a culture of security.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/06/the-irony-of-ticketmasters-breach-notification-email/

#bitLy #CyberSecurity

As Mastodon doesn't (I think this is still the case) send referer information, I need to start using #Bitly to try and see what traffic from here is like.

Honestly, I share here because it's kinda relevant, but not to be pushy, as I'm mostly here for the chats.

I'm just curious.

If you haven't seen my #LOTRO Spring Fest guide, my bitly link is here.

https://bit.ly/spring-festival-lotro

Apparently Mastodon "cards" link to the end URL not the Bitly redirect one. 🤔 Any idea why @gamepad? Thanks!

There are #DataLeaks and then there’s this. A supermassive Mother of all Breaches [#MOAB] includes records from thousands of meticulously compiled and reindexed leaks, breaches, and privately sold databases. The full and searchable list is included at the end of this article.

#LinkedIn, #Twitter, #Weibo, #Tencent, #Bitly, #Foursquare, #TeeSping, #Fox, and many, many, many more ...

@cybernews
https://cybernews.com/security/billions-passwords-credentials-leaked-mother-of-all-breaches/

Seems I’ve gotten to a breaking point with #Bitly, working on standing up my own lil URL shortener

@B2Spirit_TT You do know URL shorteners like #Bitly are pointless on #Mastodon and make you seem less trustworthy by obscuring the destination? Every link uses 23 characters of your post, no more, no less: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/#links:~:text=In%20fact,%20using%20a%20link%20shortener%20is%20actively%20discouraged

@schullogin
Kleiner Hinweis, weil gerade viele Neuzugänge #neuhier in Mastodon sind. 😃

Man muss keine Link-Shortener verwenden, um Zeichen einzusparen. Alle Links werden mit 23 Zeichen gezählt, egal wie lang sie tatsächlich sind.

Und wenn es doch sein soll, dann sind datenschutzfreundliche #Shortener wie www.t1p.de oder www.kurzelinks.de die fairere Wahl als z.B. #bitly

#fedilz

This is a good example of how abuse reports should be handled. Bit.ly has become one of the companies with the fastest response times to these reports.

My last three reports were all handled and taken down within 10 minutes, preventing thousands of people from reaching malicious sites. Only an api or e-mail option, to automate abuse reports, would make this better.

Thanks for the massive improvement in transparency and response time from the previous google forms method of reporting abuse. Keep up the good work!

#bitly #phishing #crime #fraud

@elmostrador #Bitly error. Enlace no funciona.

Quale è il metodo più sicuro e veloce per accorciare un URL? Ecco le nostre alternative a bitly e ad altri URL shortener più famosi (e pieni di traccianti)
@devol

🔗 https://www.lealternative.net/2020/11/09/come-rimpicciolire-gli-url-lunghi/

#alternative #bitly #url #shortener #privacy

Bitly finally starts taking privacy seriously

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/02/bitly-finally-starts-taking-privacy-seriously/

#bit.ly #bitly #privacy

One Open-source Project Daily

The de facto standard self hosted URL shortener in PHP

https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS

#1ospd #opensource #bitly #hacktoberfest #php #shorturl #shortenurls #shortener #urlshortener #urlshortner #yourls

One Open-source Project Daily

The de facto standard self hosted URL shortener in PHP

https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS

#1ospd #opensource #bitly #hacktoberfest #php #shorturl #shortenurls #shortener #urlshortener #urlshortner #yourls

One Open-source Project Daily

The de facto standard self hosted URL shortener in PHP

https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS

#1ospd #opensource #bitly #hacktoberfest #php #shorturl #shortenurls #shortener #urlshortener #urlshortner #yourls

One Open-source Project Daily

The de facto standard self hosted URL shortener in PHP

https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS

#1ospd #opensource #bitly #hacktoberfest #php #shorturl #shortenurls #shortener #urlshortener #urlshortner #yourls

Help Me Fediverse Hive Mind! I have some old bit.ly links embedded in QR codes that used to point to a page I'd redirect from. Those pages got lost in a CMS transition, but I'd like to keep using the QRs (they're in a tough-to-change location) and could remake the pages if I knew the addresses. But, the bit.ly links now just return a 404 error. Is there any way to figure out where they are trying to point? Edit: link checkers/unshorteners do not help. #fedihelp #404 #bitly #redirect #PleaseBoost

Help Me Fediverse Hive Mind! I have some old bit.ly links embedded in QR codes that used to point to a page I'd redirect from. Those pages got lost in a CMS transition, but I'd like to keep using the QRs (they're in a tough-to-change location) and could remake the pages if I knew the addresses. But, the bit.ly links now just return a 404 error. Is there any way to figure out where they are trying to point? Edit: link checkers/unshorteners do not help. #fedihelp #404 #bitly #redirect #PleaseBoost

Help Me Fediverse Hive Mind! I have some old bit.ly links embedded in QR codes that used to point to a page I'd redirect from. Those pages got lost in a CMS transition, but I'd like to keep using the QRs (they're in a tough-to-change location) and could remake the pages if I knew the addresses. But, the bit.ly links now just return a 404 error. Is there any way to figure out where they are trying to point? Edit: link checkers/unshorteners do not help. #fedihelp #404 #bitly #redirect #PleaseBoost

Help Me Fediverse Hive Mind! I have some old bit.ly links embedded in QR codes that used to point to a page I'd redirect from. Those pages got lost in a CMS transition, but I'd like to keep using the QRs (they're in a tough-to-change location) and could remake the pages if I knew the addresses. But, the bit.ly links now just return a 404 error. Is there any way to figure out where they are trying to point? Edit: link checkers/unshorteners do not help. #fedihelp #404 #bitly #redirect #PleaseBoost

I just figured out I couldn't log into #Bitly because I was on a VPN.
But instead of it telling me, "We don't allow access through VPNs," it said, "A mysterious error occurred. Please… try again."
And when I tried to create a new account, instead of saying I couldn't do that through a VPN, it claimed I was using an invalid email address.
Hey, web devs, VPNs are good #opsec for everyone. Stop blocking VPNs. Or if you insist, TELL PEOPLE THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
#WebDev #infosec #VPN #fail

I just figured out I couldn't log into #Bitly because I was on a VPN.
But instead of it telling me, "We don't allow access through VPNs," it said, "A mysterious error occurred. Please… try again."
And when I tried to create a new account, instead of saying I couldn't do that through a VPN, it claimed I was using an invalid email address.
Hey, web devs, VPNs are good #opsec for everyone. Stop blocking VPNs. Or if you insist, TELL PEOPLE THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
#WebDev #infosec #VPN #fail

I just figured out I couldn't log into #Bitly because I was on a VPN.
But instead of it telling me, "We don't allow access through VPNs," it said, "A mysterious error occurred. Please… try again."
And when I tried to create a new account, instead of saying I couldn't do that through a VPN, it claimed I was using an invalid email address.
Hey, web devs, VPNs are good #opsec for everyone. Stop blocking VPNs. Or if you insist, TELL PEOPLE THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
#WebDev #infosec #VPN #fail

I just figured out I couldn't log into #Bitly because I was on a VPN.
But instead of it telling me, "We don't allow access through VPNs," it said, "A mysterious error occurred. Please… try again."
And when I tried to create a new account, instead of saying I couldn't do that through a VPN, it claimed I was using an invalid email address.
Hey, web devs, VPNs are good #opsec for everyone. Stop blocking VPNs. Or if you insist, TELL PEOPLE THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
#WebDev #infosec #VPN #fail

Tried to log into #Bitly this morning to shorten a link. When I click the login button I get back, "A mysterious error occurred. Please give us a moment to investigate, then try again."
Tried resetting my password. The password reset said it worked, but still getting the same login error afterward.
Tried to create a new account. It claims I'm using an invalid email address no matter what email address I specify, including a Gmail address and an mit.edu address.
Anybody else having trouble?

Tried to log into #Bitly this morning to shorten a link. When I click the login button I get back, "A mysterious error occurred. Please give us a moment to investigate, then try again."
Tried resetting my password. The password reset said it worked, but still getting the same login error afterward.
Tried to create a new account. It claims I'm using an invalid email address no matter what email address I specify, including a Gmail address and an mit.edu address.
Anybody else having trouble?

Tried to log into #Bitly this morning to shorten a link. When I click the login button I get back, "A mysterious error occurred. Please give us a moment to investigate, then try again."
Tried resetting my password. The password reset said it worked, but still getting the same login error afterward.
Tried to create a new account. It claims I'm using an invalid email address no matter what email address I specify, including a Gmail address and an mit.edu address.
Anybody else having trouble?

Tried to log into #Bitly this morning to shorten a link. When I click the login button I get back, "A mysterious error occurred. Please give us a moment to investigate, then try again."
Tried resetting my password. The password reset said it worked, but still getting the same login error afterward.
Tried to create a new account. It claims I'm using an invalid email address no matter what email address I specify, including a Gmail address and an mit.edu address.
Anybody else having trouble?

@FirewallDragons For the first few minutes of you talking about the Bitly story, I was thinking to myself, "I could've sworn that it already does that." Eventually I realized that no, that's Adfly I was thinking of. The story is that Bitly has degraded into Adfly.

If the actual implementation turns out to be accurate to what you read out on the show, it will be trivially easy for a browser extension to automatically and instantly skip you straight to the destination URL. The only question is whether or not uBlock Origin, specifically, will have (or add) the ability to do it.

#adBlock #adFly #bitly #enshittification #uBlockOrigin #webExtension

@FirewallDragons For the first few minutes of you talking about the Bitly story, I was thinking to myself, "I could've sworn that it already does that." Eventually I realized that no, that's Adfly I was thinking of. The story is that Bitly has degraded into Adfly.

If the actual implementation turns out to be accurate to what you read out on the show, it will be trivially easy for a browser extension to automatically and instantly skip you straight to the destination URL. The only question is whether or not uBlock Origin, specifically, will have (or add) the ability to do it.

#adBlock #adFly #bitly #enshittification #uBlockOrigin #webExtension

@FirewallDragons For the first few minutes of you talking about the Bitly story, I was thinking to myself, "I could've sworn that it already does that." Eventually I realized that no, that's Adfly I was thinking of. The story is that Bitly has degraded into Adfly.

If the actual implementation turns out to be accurate to what you read out on the show, it will be trivially easy for a browser extension to automatically and instantly skip you straight to the destination URL. The only question is whether or not uBlock Origin, specifically, will have (or add) the ability to do it.

#adBlock #adFly #bitly #enshittification #uBlockOrigin #webExtension

@FirewallDragons For the first few minutes of you talking about the Bitly story, I was thinking to myself, "I could've sworn that it already does that." Eventually I realized that no, that's Adfly I was thinking of. The story is that Bitly has degraded into Adfly.

If the actual implementation turns out to be accurate to what you read out on the show, it will be trivially easy for a browser extension to automatically and instantly skip you straight to the destination URL. The only question is whether or not uBlock Origin, specifically, will have (or add) the ability to do it.

#adBlock #adFly #bitly #enshittification #uBlockOrigin #webExtension