What’s extra crazy, is that I know of a few automated processes that use a bitly link. There are going to be some broken systems out there because people wanted to distribute libraries using a shortner to make it easier on end users.
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30p87@feddit.org 2 months ago
Genius. Millions of links are hardcoded bit.ly links, no one will change them.
greybeard@lemmy.one 2 months ago
30p87@feddit.org 2 months ago
Even though something like “download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest-ssl&os=linux64&lang=en-US” is easier to type than “bit.ly/h7387ud-838” imo, because one has a logical structure (that I can adapt on the fly), and because I can probably type those single words faster than I can type single characters.
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 months ago
Well, they give the option to remove the ads altogether for just $120/year 😉
Although literally nobody would pay that ransom (100000x the actual server expense) to remove ads from their own links