http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2011/04/21/the-drawbacks-of-shortlinks/ Stay curious! Thu, 02 May 2013 12:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2011/04/21/the-drawbacks-of-shortlinks/#comment-19302 Don Marti Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:59:05 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2297#comment-19302 Shortlinks are just time-delayed webspam.

]]> http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2011/04/21/the-drawbacks-of-shortlinks/#comment-19301 Edmar Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:53:27 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2297#comment-19301 Definitely agree. Outside of Twitter, and perhaps plain text email, I don’t really see the point of not using the original link, long or not.

]]> http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2011/04/21/the-drawbacks-of-shortlinks/#comment-19300 Tim McCormack Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:08:13 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=2297#comment-19300 Not to mention spammers use them all the time to disguise the endpoint. I routinely remove shortened links that are posted to subreddits that I moderate.

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