Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
A quick search on lore.kernel.org:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F
...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
A quick search on lore.kernel.org:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F
...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.
developers.googleblog.comGoogle URL Shortener links will no longer be available- Google Developers BlogUnderstand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.
@corbet this makes me wonder whether the Wayback Machine tracks shortened links properly…
since I guess that would be a way to recover them after it gets shut off, albeit in a very annoying way
@clarfonthey @corbet Sort of; URLTeam (part of ArchiveTeam) has been continuously archiving link shorteners: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam, and although not a part of the Internet Archive, the crawls *do* end up there I believe
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@clarfonthey @corbet yes, they do work properly inside WBM in most cases. There is a long history of doing this for dead or dying link shorteners: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/URLTeam
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