Love it. This is going in the toolbox along with http://shadyurl.com
Obligatory xkcd: https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
Ruined for me by their cookie consent page :D
A URL Lengthener
aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com
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Re: A URL Lengthener
#282I don't get it. Is this a joke or it has some real use?
Not a joke. It's practical uses are numerous. Can't believe people can't see that.
Re: A URL Lengthener
#283Back in the early days of web hosting I recall that a customer had a domain name that was literally as long as ICANN would allow at the time. It was very nearly a full sentence. I don't recall the limit but this domain aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com is 57 characters (not including .com) and I think that sounds familiar. One could have a lot of fun with that if they wanted to (and such as…
Some companies still don't mind long domain names. This one launched very recently: https://www.hardrockcasinonorthernindiana.com Nearby, the Chicago Botanic Garden went short: https://ohwow.org
Original name of Facebook's domain was thefacebook.com but they realized it was too long and that "the" was unnecessary so they bought facebook.com
I think domain names are like company names or brands you don't want to have long company name or brand name because nobody will remember it.
Re: A URL Lengthener
#284Microsoft also provides a URL lengthener via "Advanced Outlook.com security for Office 365 subscribers". Thanks to them, any URL we send or receive by email at work turns into an unrecognizable monster. At least the links include comforting words like "safelinks" and "protection" so that everyone can feel safe and protected.
The Office 365 mail crap is the worst. We had to use it in college and it would always click password reset links, expiring them before you could even read your mail.
Re: A URL Lengthener
#285Re: A URL Lengthener
#286A nice feature is that when you design a URL lengthener, you can make the service stateless. The backend doesn't need to store every URL that it was ever given. This contrasts with URL shortener services, which must store state in order to generate very short URLs. (In theory, shorteners can use stateless compression like zlib, but it wouldn't save enough space to be worth it.)
funnily enough, thats exactly what the lengthener is doing!
Re: A URL Lengthener
#287Re: A URL Lengthener
#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's very weird! How did you even find this?
63 characters is the length limit for individual labels in domain names, so I just wanted to see who has the most `a`-s.
I have a personal domain http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
It used to be longer, but name.com that I use nowadays does not support any longer ones. :( I think there were a few a's more, up to the technical limit (which I forget now).
Re: A URL Lengthener
#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is so frustrating, I just want the url, but NO, you can an escaped version of the URL embedded inside another escaped blob instead. Ditto with Facebook.
I use a Firefox addon for that, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-track-me...
Good extension. ClearURLs can also do this for a wide range of sites, and supports custom rules for sites you specify:
https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls
Privacy Badger is another option that cleans Google and Facebook links while blocking trackers, and is available by default on Firefox for Android:
Re: A URL Lengthener
#290Unfortunately due to the way your service performs redirects(?), link previews give away the game. if I post a shadyurl.com link I get a link preview of the target website, but link previews for a(x56) show a preview for your website. Here's an example from a Messenger conversation where I used both services: