URL Shorteners Debate
The cluster centers on discussions about URL shortening services, including criticisms for obscuring destination links, recommendations for or against their use in Hacker News comments, and concerns over security and necessity.
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URL shorteners should not have existed in the first place.
why the hell aren't you shortening the URLs?
Try using an URL shortener such as http://bit.ly
Short urls would make this much more desirable.
would be useful with url shortener.
Please don't use URL shorteners, as they obscure the destination URL.
Please don't use URL shorteners as they obfuscate the destination URL.
I am curious, why did you use URL shortner?
One URL shortening service is too many. Do we really need everyone making their own?
Its url shorteners all the way down...