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1d ago

Bitly Changes: Link-Shortening, Now with Advertising

tedium.co 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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Blaze (he/him) @sopuli.xyz

23h ago

Bitly Changes: Link-Shortening, Now with Advertising

tedium.co /2025/02/07/bitly-terms-of-service-change/

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Privacy @lemmy.ml

1d ago

Bitly Changes: Link-Shortening, Now with Advertising

tedium.co /2025/02/07/bitly-terms-of-service-change/

Bitly Changes: Link-Shortening, Now with Advertising

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3 comments

Host your own URL shortener with Yourls. It's great, loads of useful plugins too. (dot)ink domains are cheap so you can have fun with namel.ink like I did.

it always had ads. that was its point, not the shortening

this concept seemed great at first but it is aweful dangerous and copy and paste is pretty easy.