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Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 year ago

Bitly Changes: Link-Shortening, Now with Advertising

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Bitly Changes: Link-Shortening, Now with Advertising

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Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 year 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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  • Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    What surprises me is that they didn’t do it sooner. Maybe they finally ran out of vulture capital money, but even if they were still funded, it would have happened anyways. Enshitification is entropy for businesses, it’s an inevitable force of nature.

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      Enshitification is entropy for businesses

      Can I have this on a T-shirt?

      • Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        All my posts are Licensed under GPL 3.0. So, go ahead :-)

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      My take: don’t use short links whenever possible. Them being open source doesn’t protect from going out of business and choosing not to renew the domain, breaking all existing links. Heck, it doesn’t even guarantee they won’t change their minds later and choose to run different, non-open software on their server which snoops on or adds ads to people’s links.

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    So a bad idea is made worse? Cool.

    Cool cool cool.

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