Hey #Fediverse can I ask you a favor?
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@iampytest1 @benbe Nice! I use Link Unshortener which has a user-editable list of known tracker queries.
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@elduvelle Or people with poor reading comprehension?
Contrarians?
@drahardja @elduvelle a new link shortener, based on the good advice "don't use link shorteners"
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Hey #Fediverse can I ask you a favor?
Please don’t post URLs that have been shortened. Link-shortening services can not only potentially *track* your interactions and add telemetry to track your behaviors, they can also *break* and make your links unusable.
You can use services like https://urlexpander.net or install an app (I like Link Unshortener (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/link-unshortener/id1506953658)) to find the ultimate destination of a shortened link, and then post that instead.
Remember, all URLs in #Mastodon count as 23 characters, no matter how long the actual URL is, so there really is no benefit to shortening your URLs.
@drahardja i've ended up with a, well, "distinctive" writing style to my own head as a result of having to work through a 500 character limitation as well as all the other pressures on posting on fedi
trust me, the "every URL is 23 characters" rule is a *godsend* for attribution
links absolutely do not need to be shortened here, and the full URL is more informative anyways!
(you should try to strip tracking parameters though. nobody has any use for that)
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@dmacphee I don’t know…I should check it out!
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@dmacphee Ah, so this trims tracking queries, but it doesn’t unshorten links. I think this solves a *different* (also important) problem.
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Me: Don’t use link shorteners
Random people: Here’s my link shortener, you should use it
@drahardja somehow despite having zero tech knowledge I can already tell that every reply fly who did this bullshit vibecoded whatever tf it was they're desperately trying to recommend
which just makes your original point stronger I guess?? because who is gonna trust vibecode trash from a chucklefuck with no reading comprehension or sense of boundaries? 😂
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