Url shorteners are an unnecessary security risk and also creates single points of failure for long term Internet stability. We should try to avoid them and instead encourage popular sites to provide their own shortened links. For more, here's a noteworthy blog post on the subject: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html [schachter.org]
TinyURL Previews (Score:5, Informative)
Turn them on, so you can see where they go.
http://tinyurl.com/preview.php [tinyurl.com]
Re: (Score:0)
Does it matter? Nowadays there are dozens of urls shortening services.
A browser extension on the other hand would prove very useful.
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Re: (Score:5, Funny)
http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html [schachter.org]
And if that URL is too long, try: http://bit.ly/diVyDc [bit.ly]
Re:TinyURL Previews (Score:3, Interesting)
Pff, way too long. Just input this into firefox:
to./3n4d [to.]
Yes, that’s right. A TLD url shortener. The http: // is only needed for <a href="...">s or IE.