If a for-profit org gives something out for free, even if its OSS, you are likely contributing to their profits in different ways.
Comment on The documentation links in PlatformIO are all bit [dot] ly short links
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 months agoIt’s the VSCode IDE that does it, it seems.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 months ago
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 months ago
That’s not wrong, but in this case, PlatformIO isn’t showing these ads, bit [dot] ly is. AFAIK, only bitly gets the ad money.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 months ago
Neither of your screenshot seems to be showing ads?
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 months ago
Guess they’d have to click on it first.
sramder@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So… who owns bit.ly at this point? ;-)