Bit.ly's shady business model
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Bit.ly's shady business model
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Re: Bit.ly's shady business model
#2Create a script to follow those urls and migrate and byebye?
Re: Bit.ly's shady business model
#3Although it sucks I wouldn't claim it's a shady business model. It seems more like the obvious one - make the custom URL option paid and they have their pricing clearly laid out - https://bitly.com/a/pricing
And you have a few days to crawl the URLs and see what you get.
Re: Bit.ly's shady business model
#4Time to scrape the URLs and resolve them yourself!
Re: Bit.ly's shady business model
#5If your product is taking off, learn from your mistake of not following the ToS and just build your own in-house URL shortener.
Re: Bit.ly's shady business model
#6I feel it's a little underhanded call it shady while simultaneous admitting the information was there in a document you opted not to read as you built your business around it.
Re: Bit.ly's shady business model
#7Create a script to follow those urls and migrate and byebye?
I thought about this, but they still have the problem that the old links shared won't resolve.
EDIT: mseebach is right, they just have to copy the link format
Re: Bit.ly's shady business model
#8If your product is taking off, learn from your mistake of not following the ToS and just build your own in-house URL shortener.
Very true. Not shying away from my responsibility. I'm mostly to blame. And still - can't say I like bit.ly's way of doing business.
Re: Bit.ly's shady business model
#9Create a script to follow those urls and migrate and byebye?
I thought about this, but they still have the problem that the old links shared won't resolve. EDIT: mseebach is right, they just have to copy the link format
Why not? They have their own domain that they'll presumably point to a new service.
Re: Bit.ly's shady business model
#10I guess a few other businesses will be approached by them same way.
Running your own shorter sounds like a must these days.