URL shorteners

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URL shorteners

Postby snapsnap » Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:01 pm

Any chance that these can be outlawed? An example is bit.ly. If a URL isn't in plain text for me to see where it's taking me, I don't click it. It's too easy for some user to redirect someone to a nefarious site, pay for clicks site, etc. I think it would be better for the forums overall if these were not allowed.

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Re: URL shorteners

Postby LilFapperMan » Wed Oct 01, 2014 12:25 am

Unfortunately, and because of the minimal set of rules root has listed, I can't really do much with it. We'll have to wait for his response. If you're not sure about a link, don't click it. That's got to be like rule number 0 of the internet.
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Re: URL shorteners

Postby TheDawg » Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:04 am

Please, if not for safety then do it for not having to wait 5 seconds per link...
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