Bitly Changes: Link-Shortening, Now with Advertising
Bitly, the link-shortening service long used by millions, decides it’s going to place an ad between you and your link. Don’t like it? It’ll cost ya.
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https://shlink.io/ For an open source alternative ;) (mentioned in the article but thought it's good to post it here too)
My take: don't use short links whenever possible. Them being open source doesn't protect from going out of business and choosing not to renew the domain, breaking all existing links. Heck, it doesn't even guarantee they won't change their minds later and choose to run different, non-open software on their server which snoops on or adds ads to people's links.
Yeah that's better, but if someone were insistent on it there it is, i guess.
