#linkshorteners — Public Fediverse posts

Depuis quelques temps je vois passer dans les timelines des liens externes en share[.]google. Ils sont créés par Discover, une fonctionnalité d'Android qui permet de partager les articles de presse qu'elle affiche dans son flux d'actualités personnalisé. Comme je ne l'utilise pas, il m'a fallu un moment pour piger… 😅

Les raccourcisseurs de liens sont inutiles sur Masto (chaque url compte pour 23 caractères). En plus, ils cachent l'adresse du lien, ce qui peut faciliter les attaques de type phishing. Et la pérennité de ce genre de services n'est pas garantie. Google vient justement d'annoncer l'abandon de goo[.]gl avant de changer d'avis en catastrophe le 1er août. Beaucoup d'autres, comme tr[.]im et su[.]pr, ont déjà disparu au fil des ans.

Si vous aimez Discover, vous ignorez peut-être que le raccourcissement automatique des liens peut être désactivé dans les préférences : « Sur votre téléphone ou tablette Android, ouvrez l'appli Google. En haut à droite, appuyez sur votre photo de profil ou initiale puis Paramètres puis Général. Désactivez l'option Raccourcir les liens vers les pages Web. »

Gérer vos préférences pour les pages Web dans l'appli Google : https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/7013866

#MastoTips #URLShorteners #LinkShorteners

Sharing Juice Media Honest Government Ads is Good, but using shortened links with tracking cruft on Mastodon? (No names, this ain't personal.)

The latest HGA is available on their home page: https://www.thejuicemedia.com/

Or their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia

On their YouTube channel you can find a direct link, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euE8eZTyQQg

Android will try to drive you to the YouTube app, but you can force it to play in a browser.

#TheJuiceMedia #HonestGovernmentAd #LinkShorteners

🦔 Flink URL Shortener v2.0.0 is out

What's new in 2.0.0? (short excerpt)
🔏 strip tracking query parameters
📈 add stats page
❤️ implement support for custom themes
🔥 introduced Scalar API documentation
🛡️ strict CSP (Content-Security-Policy)
➕ plus everything that was already in 1.0.0

Flink Demo instances:
🌍 https://flink.is/
🌍 https://flink.rtrace.io/

Source Code:
💽 https://gitlab.com/rtraceio/web/flink

happy to hear your feedback ❤️

#Flink #linkshorteners #UrlShortener #shortener #FLOSS

You had been warned to not use #LinkShorteners.

»Starting in February, your Bitly links and QR Codes may show a preview page before directing your audience to the destination URL. This page includes information about the link and may include #advertising. You can remove the preview page experience from your links and QR Codes at any time by selecting a paid Bitly plan.«

https://www.coywolf.news/social/bitly-adds-interstitial-ads-to-shortened-urls-unlocking-new-revenue-stream/

#LinkShorteners #URLShortener

Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
All goo.gl links will stop redirecting as of 25 August 2025 :
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/

We're about to enter the Digital Dark Ages: Google announced that as of next year, all of the existing shortened URLs will be turned off. (login required)
https://www.businessinsider.com/digital-dark-ages-internet-history-old-websites-disappearing-link-rot-2024-10
Online archives are vanishing — and they're taking our history with them.

@justiz

ls;dr

(link shortener; didn't read)

Link shorteners are not needed on mastodon.

> All links are counted as 23 characters, no matter how long they actually are, so there is no need to use a link shortener to save characters. In fact, using a link shortener is actively discouraged.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/#links

#linkshorteners #lsdr #privacy

@CultureDesk Hum.

Great to have flipboard aboard and all that, but why are you using a link shortener?

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/

Your link to https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmw0l30vk0o is shortened to https://flip.it/1Dee6f

The only reason I can see for doing this is tracking.

#tracking #linkshorteners

PSA for everyone on Mastodon: You don't need to use link shorteners. All links count as 23 characters, no matter what.

All a link shortener does is keep people from seeing where the link goes*. Many of us will refuse to boost posts with shortened links precisely because of this.

Please, just put the actual link in your post!

* And make your link become useless if the link shortening service ever goes away for any reason.)

#Mastodon #etiquette #links #LinkShorteners #PSA

PSA: Link shorteners are not needed in the fediverse.

If you regularly use link shorteners, I'm muting you.

"But I'm on a instance that requires me to... [some excuses.]"

Move to a sane instance.

Have a nice day.

#PSA #LinkShorteners #fediverse #muting

Gooception: Google have begun preemptively shutting down the services to which they are transitioning people whose service is being shut down

This is beyond parody:

https://twitter.com/Carnage4Life/status/1814316682149781661

https://alecmuffett.com/article/110070

#gooception #google #linkShorteners

@maxplanckgesellschaft
✅ All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters, no matter how long they really are

URLs can be as long as you want, they will never exceed 23 characters of your limit.

There is no need to use a link shortener!

#FediTips #MastoTips #LinkShortener #LinkShorteners #URLShortener #URLShorteners #CharacterLimits #Mastodon

You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon. All links count as 23 characters no matter how long they really are.

Also, links on Mastodon stay in the form you wrote them. This is much better for privacy than Twitter.

Twitter quietly changes all posted links to go via Twitter's domain t.co so they can track people. This doesn't happen on Mastodon or the Fediverse.

You can see this hidden conversion in Twitter by hovering your mouse over a link there, the link appears to show a normal address but Firefox and other browsers will indicate the true t.co address in the bottom left corner of the screen. If you try this same check on Mastodon or the Fediverse, you will see your links stay just as you wrote them.

#MastoTips #FediTips #Mastodon #Fediverse #Privacy #Twitter #LinkShorteners

Stop using #linkshorteners needlessly!

Linkverkürzer sollten primär aus zwei Gründen vermieden werden:

1. Transparenz
Nachträglich verkürzte Links erschweren es Menschen Annahmen über das Linkziel zu treffen und zu entscheiden, ob man/frau dahin möchte.

2. Datenschutz
Die Einbeziehung eines Drittanbieters in das Folgen eines Links ist ein unnötiges Datenschutzrisiko, gerade wenn dieser noch weitere Anbieter oder Tracking mit einbezieht.

Natürlich gibt es auch valide Anwendungsfälle.

✅ All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters, no matter how long they really are

URLs can be as long as you want, they will never exceed 23 characters of your limit.

There is no need to use a link shortener!

#FediTips #MastoTips #LinkShortener #LinkShorteners #URLShortener #URLShorteners #CharacterLimits #Mastodon