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 12:55 UTC (Fri) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)In reply to: Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker) by pboddie
Parent article: Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker)
I agree with you but CMS that generate ridiculously long and non copy-pastable URL are to blame fo the invention of shorteners.
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