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   Alex Hall (alexhall@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 04:40:36 JST Alex Hall

   I still find bit.ly links in posts every so often. With all the social networks no longer counting the actual length of a URL against a post's character count, and with all the security implications of URL shorteners, why is this still a thing? Yes, there are a few other shorteners, too, but bit.ly seems to be the most common.

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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 04:45:21 JST GNU Too

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     I suspect its some 3rd party tool that's still creating them automatically. Something akin to Hootsuite?
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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 04:48:54 JST GNU Too

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     • GNU Too
     It could also be someone still using paid for bit.ly for their tracking purposes (which link used to access the site to determine which promotion methods are successful) rather than having them created on the server side (the whole ?=RSS in the url for example to tell the webmaster that 30 people accessed his page by using the link in the RSS Feed)