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rs186 on May 28, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that las...

Shortening long URLs is the intended use case for a ... URL shortener.

The real abusers are the people who use a shortener to hide scam/spam/illegal websites behind a common domain and post it everywhere.

creatonez on May 28, 2025 [–]

These are not just "long URLs". These are URLs where the entire content is stored in the fragment suffix of the URL. They are blobs, and always have been.

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