What’s their body count now? Seems like they’ve slowed down the killing spree, but maybe it’s just that we got tired of talking about them.
Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month
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What do you mean by accessible without authentication? My server will serve example.com/64-byte-random-code if you request it, but if you don’t know the code, I won’t serve it.
Obfuscation may hint that it's intended to be private, but it's certainly not authentication. And the keyspace for these goog.le short URL's are much smaller than a 64byte alphanumeric code.
I'm not seeing why there's a clear line where GET cannot be authentication but POST can.
Re: Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month
#104From the blog post: "more than 99% of them had no activity in the last month" https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-li... This is a classic product data decision-making fallacy. The right question is "how much total value do all of the links provide", not "what percent are used".
"Data-driven decision making"
Re: Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month
#105Noticed recently on some google properties where there are Share buttons that it's generating share.google links now instead of goo.gl.
Is that the same shortening platform running it?
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#106OMFG - Google should keep these up forever. What a hit to trust. Trust with Google was already bad for everything they killed, this is another dagger.
People still trust Google?
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Google killing their domains service was the last straw for me. I started moving all of my stuff off of Google since then.
I'm still shocked that my google voice number still functions after all these years. It makes me assume it's main purpose is to actually be an honeypot of some sort, maybe for spam call detection.
Mass surveillance pipeline to the successor of room 641A.
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While Perma is solution specifically for this problem, and a good one at that - citing the might of the backing company is a bit ironic here
If Cloudflare provides the infra (thanks Cloudflare!), I am happy to have them provide the compute and network for the lookups (which, at their scale, is probably a rounding error), with the Internet Archive remaining the storage system of last resort. Is that different than the Internet Archive offering compute to provide the lookups on top of their storage system? Everything is temporary, intent is important, etc.…
This is much better positioned for longevity than google’s URL shortener, I’m not trying to make that argument.
My point is that 10-15 years ago, when Google’s URL shortener was being adopted for all these (inappropriate) uses, its use was supported by a public opinion of Google’s ‘inevitability’. For Perma, CF serves a similar function.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean by accessible without authentication? My server will serve example.com/64-byte-random-code if you request it, but if you don’t know the code, I won’t serve it.
Obfuscation may hint that it's intended to be private, but it's certainly not authentication. And the keyspace for these goog.le short URL's are much smaller than a 64byte alphanumeric code.
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Re: Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month
#110Google is making harder and harder to depend on their software.