Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #shortenedurls, aggregated by home.social.
Very amusing: PhishyURL.com. “This is a tool that takes any link and makes it look malicious. It works on the idea of a redirect. Much like https://tinyurl.com/ for example. Where tinyurl makes an url shorter, this site makes it look malicious.” It does generate very crazy-looking URLs.
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/08/nerd-pranks-phishyurl-com/
Android Authority: Google backpedals on plans to totally kill this legacy service. “Google has updated the blog post where it announced the shutdown of Google URL Shortener. In the update, the Mountain View-based firm states that it has reconsidered discontinuing support for all goo.gl URLs. Despite claiming earlier that 99% of these links had no activity in June, Google says it received […]
iMessage text gets recipient to disable phishing protection so they can be phished https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/01/imessage-text-gets-recipient-to-disable-phishing-protection-so-they-can-be-phished #shortenedURLs #typosquatting #smishing #Apple #reply #News