[liberationtech] Stanford Bitly Enterprise Account

[Nadim Kobeissi]

I should make a website that passes your URL through every single URL
shortener on the Internet in sequence, so that when you send it to someone
they spent five minutes being bounced through URL shortener services before
reaching the URL...


NK


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Alex Comninos <alex.comninos at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 16 November 2012 15:18, Nadim Kobeissi <nadim at nadim.cc> wrote:
> > Is there any benefit other than an aesthetic one? Centralizing all URLs
> > under a single authority and then obfuscating them doesn't sound like a
> > particularly great idea...
>
> agreed
>
> only benefit I can see is if they also offered protection from malware
> as http://mcaf.ee/ does, I would not recommend using mcaf.ee as it
> would put the data in the hands of a corporation
>
>
> On 16 November 2012 15:18, Nadim Kobeissi <nadim at nadim.cc> wrote:
> > Is there any benefit other than an aesthetic one? Centralizing all URLs
> > under a single authority and then obfuscating them doesn't sound like a
> > particularly great idea...
> >
> >
> > NK
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 03:14:35PM +0100, Alex Comninos wrote:
> >> > data retention and privacy implications compared to for example is.gd
> >> > or installing a URL shortner on Libtech's own servers?
> >>
> >> Earl shorteners are considered harmful. Don't use them.
> >>
> >> > implications of the .ly ccTLD being under Libyan jurisdiction?
> >> >
> >> > I would like to hear a little about these issues
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