not only is this useless but it's been done at least half a dozen times already in the past 2 decades
A URL shortener not shortening the URL but makes it look very dodgy
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Re: A URL shortener not shortening the URL but makes it look very dodgy
#42I also recommend the developer's blog. Very detailed and hilarious articles https://mango.pdf.zone/ I laughed myself to tears reading Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing[1] 1: https://mango.pdf.zone/operation-luigi-how-i-hacked-my-friend-without-her-noticing
I just read the Abbott-Qantas-Story. It's lovely.^^
Re: A URL shortener not shortening the URL but makes it look very dodgy
#43I would have used honestachmed.link.
Re: A URL shortener not shortening the URL but makes it look very dodgy
#44The url shortener I build years ago had a feature for this called 'sketchy' urls - https://duct.me/
Re: A URL shortener not shortening the URL but makes it look very dodgy
#45I also recommend the developer's blog. Very detailed and hilarious articles https://mango.pdf.zone/ I laughed myself to tears reading Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing[1] 1: https://mango.pdf.zone/operation-luigi-how-i-hacked-my-friend-without-her-noticing
The Tony Abbott story has been on hacker news before. It's so funny.
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#46I also recommend the developer's blog. Very detailed and hilarious articles https://mango.pdf.zone/ I laughed myself to tears reading Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing[1] 1: https://mango.pdf.zone/operation-luigi-how-i-hacked-my-friend-without-her-noticing
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Re: A URL shortener not shortening the URL but makes it look very dodgy
#47I would consider this innovative, but Office365 has had this built in (and as far as I can tell impossible to turn off) for years. What used to be a sensible link turns into a vast "safe link honest, guv" mess. I call it "man in the middle attack as a service"
Same with PayPal. I've received perfectly valid emails direct from PayPal that include random sketchy links from third parties that are obvious phishing expeditions. I reported it to PayPal, but the ability still exists.
Re: A URL shortener not shortening the URL but makes it look very dodgy
#48This is old, but I guess it didn’t get as much attention when it was posted in 2017.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
„Turns out this site is powered by money. We ran out of Google App Engine credit. Fear not, we'll get more within 24 hours.“
Forgive my old-fashioned-ness, but... Why is metered cloud hosting a better choice here than a $5/mo. VPS?
> $5/mo. VPS
I think you may even get 256 megs of ram for that these days.