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vidarh
on May 27, 2014
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Link shorteners hurt the user experience and destr...
#1 is done by pretty much
any
site that lets you display "third party" content where said third-party is untrusted. Such as most webmail providers, when loading remote images, and often for links too.
(but there's no reason to do shortening)
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(but there's no reason to do shortening)