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asdll commented on Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month   theverge.com/news/713125/... · Posted by u/mobilio
edent · 7 months ago
About 60k academic citations about to die - https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=90&q=%22https://goo...

Countless books with irrevocably broken references - https://www.google.com/search?q=%22://goo.gl%22&sca_upv=1&sc...

And for what? The cost of keeping a few TB online and a little bit of CPU power?

An absolute act of cultural vandalism.

asdll · 7 months ago
> An absolute act of cultural vandalism.

It makes me mad also, but something we have to learn the hard way is that nothing in this world is permanent. Never, ever depend on any technology to persist. Not even URLs to original hosts should be required. Inline everything.

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