[wp-forums] Proposal: No URL shorteners?

[Gavin Pearce]

> My only issue with shorteners is that you don't know what you're
clicking on. 
> Not clicking on unknown links has been drilled in to me since day 1 of
Internet 
> usage, so to suddenly experience systems which are designed to
obfuscate is 
> foreign to me.  I guess we have twitter to blame for this.

I agree don't shorten URLs unless you need to - but *only* because
you're adding a redirect with no purpose otherwise.

In regards to "safety":

http://www.example.com/mypersonalblog/blogpage/something 

is just as likely to be "bad" as:

http://bit.ly/abc

Just because you can see the end-point, doesn't make the end-point any
safer, unless you can personally "fully" trust that domain.

Gav


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:wp-forums-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Mr mist
Sent: 03 January 2011 14:24
To: wp-forums at lists.automattic.com
Subject: Re: [wp-forums] Proposal: No URL shorteners?

In message <99BAD0C8-E799-4DD4-822E-B7A0D79E2607 at ftwr.co.uk>, Peter 
Westwood <peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk> writes
>
>
>Maybe we should create a bbPress plugin which auto expands the urls or 
>shows the actual target in a tooltip?
>

That would be sweet.

My only issue with shorteners is that you don't know what you're 
clicking on. Not clicking on unknown links has been drilled in to me 
since day 1 of Internet usage, so to suddenly experience systems which 
are designed to obfuscate is foreign to me.  I guess we have twitter to 
blame for this.
-- 
mrmist
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