As a general rule, I will never click a link unless it clearly states where it’s taking me. Except I needed to see what the error meant, so I clicked open on it. Yay interstitial ads! 😠

  • stevestevesteve@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    22 天前

    I’m trying to figure out why 😕 it adds a third party dependency and isn’t really any easier to copy (e.g. by hand) than a more human-readable url. What are they saving 15 bytes of text or something?

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    21 天前

    BTW, with bitly at least, you can add a + to the end and you can see the destination before you choose to visit.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      21 天前

      This is good to know, but bit . ly already got your precious data at that point.

      Browsers can also be configured to do this by default - or possibly only for bit . ly with some addon.