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TimLeland | 6 months ago

Looks neat — just a heads up, be prepared for malicious users to find the service and immediately start using it for harmful redirects. I ran into this pretty early on when I launched T.LY, so it’s something worth thinking about from the start.

I ended up building an entire service to detect these URLs as soon as possible, protecting the service. Happy to give you some tips, just reach out.

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anwitars|6 months ago

I appreciate your feedback, and I completely agree with you that malicious users would immediately start to exploit it. Although I remain confident (for now), that the service's peek/info features help protecting innocent users from such activities. If it fails to deliver that safety, I will definitely implement something that you mentioned.

I would always love to hear feedback, so you should just reach out as well if you have anything in mind.