top | item 7836853 (no title) lyndonh | 11 years ago People are using shorteners on shortened links, this is the problem.The most obvious one is Twitter, always using it's own service regardless. discuss order hn newest sukuriant|11 years ago My guess would be for analytics, so it knows how its own service is being used and who is accessing websites through it. It comes with a convenient feature that bad URLs can be taken down on its site. unclebucknasty|11 years ago Genuinely curious: How does it take down bad URLs? And, by "bad", are we talking about 404s? load replies (1)
sukuriant|11 years ago My guess would be for analytics, so it knows how its own service is being used and who is accessing websites through it. It comes with a convenient feature that bad URLs can be taken down on its site. unclebucknasty|11 years ago Genuinely curious: How does it take down bad URLs? And, by "bad", are we talking about 404s? load replies (1)
unclebucknasty|11 years ago Genuinely curious: How does it take down bad URLs? And, by "bad", are we talking about 404s? load replies (1)
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