Hey #Fediverse can I ask you a favor?
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This is the first of your posts where you've said anything relevant and substantive.
Upon first glance [I'll read it more closely] none of it offers any supportable justification for negative comments on what I posted myself. The fact is that you joined a dogpile to vent about your feelings and not to say anything useful.
However, you've invested time and effort now in reasoned points on the broader issue. That is to be respected.
I've spent most of the last 12 hours in the Fediverse. [I slept from about 5:30am to 8:30am local time.] This isn't usual for me. I have other business to attend to presently. Allow me the day. I'll comment on specifics to the extent possible before Monday morning in my time zone. -
@catsalad https://www.reallylong.link/
Honorable mention:
https://creepylink.com/ -
@catsalad
Don't cause another Elon-gate.
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@drahardja I heard that the DDG browser has a clean copy function now for copying urls so it strips out tracking stuff. I am no expert on this so is this a good alternative in some ways?
@dmacphee I don’t know…I should check it out!
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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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@iampytest1
@ferrix they were caught doing very malicious things including running DDoS from captcha apps to taking part in a smear campaign when a journalist uncovered an identity (I think I got that all right but it's from memory). -
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 It kind of blows my mind that *multiple* people have replied to you trying to justify the use of link shorteners with arguments that aren't even logically coherent, and they don't seem to realize it 🤦
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