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T.LY: https://t.ly/
Link Unshortener: https://linkunshorten.com/
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FYI that your site is blocked by this list: https://gitlab.com/The_Quantum_Alpha/the-quantum-ad-list HN post for that list here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25512273
Hm, well I've got to work out how to get off that list! Thanks for giving me the heads up. EDIT: I'm not sure quite how to deal with being put on ad lists. Sure, people can upload any file to our host so it's plausible that someone, at some point, has uploaded an advert. Someone could also redirect to an advert domain and we'd have no way to really deal with that unless it was reported. Ideas are welcome for solution…
1. Reach out to the list maintainer to see why your site was added.
2. Create a blocklist comprised of those ad lists. Don’t redirect to sites on the blocklist.
3. (Of dubious practical value) Create a Terms of Service that says users may not use your to link to advertisements.
Wasn't the primary use of URL shorteners to compress a given URL in order to reduce the character count? Given today's Twitter, what are they still used for besides visual convenience? Do youtu.be, t.co, fb.me and dlvr.it next!
My company uses them in its print assets like billboards, posters, and transit ads. I see them all the time in commercial text messages, like from things I've subscribed to, or delivery alerts so I can track the pizza guy.
Don't want to be mean, but just to inform you, guidelines says "Please don't delete and repost. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place." and I know you have posted and then deleted the same post yesterday. It is fine to repost if you didn't get notice no worries
Wasn't the primary use of URL shorteners to compress a given URL in order to reduce the character count? Given today's Twitter, what are they still used for besides visual convenience? Do youtu.be, t.co, fb.me and dlvr.it next!
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Hm, well I've got to work out how to get off that list! Thanks for giving me the heads up. EDIT: I'm not sure quite how to deal with being put on ad lists. Sure, people can upload any file to our host so it's plausible that someone, at some point, has uploaded an advert. Someone could also redirect to an advert domain and we'd have no way to really deal with that unless it was reported. Ideas are welcome for solution…
Just some thoughts: 1. Reach out to the list maintainer to see why your site was added. 2. Create a blocklist comprised of those ad lists. Don’t redirect to sites on the blocklist. 3. (Of dubious practical value) Create a Terms of Service that says users may not use your to link to advertisements.
A place to start might be this large, very popular list that combines a bunch of other lists: https://oisd.nl/
Actual text file is here (large file warning): https://hosts.oisd.nl/
Just prevent your service from shortening links to any of those domains.
Not particularly surprising. I was building a url shortner some 12-13 years ago but eventually abandoned it. But this was exactly how I planned to monetize it.
I am not surprised. URL shorteners will try to monetize eventually. One way is to support ad networks, other is to show ads and videos before navigating to the target URL. I am 100% sure TOS allow it since the beginning. As far it seems to be a grim future, it is almost only way they can monetize. Otherwise they will close their businesses rendering millions of URLs broken, what I think is the future that is too easy…
