Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker)
Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker)
Posted Apr 15, 2016 12:05 UTC (Fri) by lmb (subscriber, #39048)Parent article: Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker)
Not to mention that these various URL redirection services amass tons of data on who accesses the links from where.
It's not uncommon nowadays to be shuffled through three or more layers of indirection, allowing an exact mapping of the social media graph it got passed through.