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Re: The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Post by phoe-krk » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 9:10 AM UTC

I wouldn't call it a shortener, since most of the links it creates are longer than the originals.

What would be a good name here? A URL redirector?

Re: The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Post by rendall » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 9:14 AM UTC

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Re: The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Post by johnisgood » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 9:16 AM UTC

phoe-krk wrote: post #61

I wouldn't call it a shortener, since most of the links it creates are longer than the originals. What would be a good name here? A URL redirector?

URL lengthener. :D

Re: The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Post by phoe-krk » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 9:19 AM UTC

johnisgood wrote: post #63

phoe-krk wrote: post #61

I wouldn't call it a shortener, since most of the links it creates are longer than the originals. What would be a good name here? A URL redirector?

URL lengthener. :D

Huh, https://looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... comes to mind.

Thanks!

Re: The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 9:20 AM UTC

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Re: The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Post by manthangupta109 » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 9:25 AM UTC

lol

Re: The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Post by nephihaha » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 9:33 AM UTC

phoe-krk wrote: post #61

I wouldn't call it a shortener, since most of the links it creates are longer than the originals. What would be a good name here? A URL redirector?

Same here I took a six character url, and it turned into at least ten.

Re: The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Post by anomaly_ » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 9:41 AM UTC

koakuma-chan wrote: post #22

4k93n2 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

which bit are you getting an AI smell from?

gradient background, card, button

Have you looked at a website in the last 10 years?

Re: The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Post by bsza » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 9:53 AM UTC

Yeah but have fun explaining yourself to the police when the author abandons the project and an actual scammer ends up buying up all those domains.

Re: The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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Post by bmacho » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 10:05 AM UTC

vanc_cefepime wrote: post #10

awesome_dude wrote: post #3

For humour I shortened " https://www.facebook.com/ " And got https://twitter.web-safe.link/root_4h3ku0_account_verificati...

I added google.com and it spit out https://twitterDOTc1icDOTlink/install_Jy7NpK_private_videoDOTzip Interesting that it spit out a .zip url. Was not expecting that so I changed all the “.” to “DOT” so I don’t get punished for posting a spammy link despite this literally being a website to make links as spammy and creepy as possible.

punished by whom?