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ray@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months ago

Bitly Changes: Link-Shortening, Now with Advertising

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Bitly Changes: Link-Shortening, Now with Advertising

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ray@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 months ago
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Bitly Changes: Link-Shortening, Now With Advertising
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Bitly, the link-shortening service long used by millions, decides it’s going to place an ad between you and your link. Don’t like it? It’ll cost ya.
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    Host your own URL shortener with Yourls. It’s great, loads of useful plugins too. (dot)ink domains are cheap so you can have fun with namel.ink like I did.

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    it always had ads. that was its point, not the shortening

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    this concept seemed great at first but it is aweful dangerous and copy and paste is pretty easy.

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