Do Tiny URL Services Weaken Net Architecture? - Slashdot
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Do Tiny URL Services Weaken Net Architecture?
Slashdot - Now we're bringing search engine optimization into it. What's that got to do with the topic at hand??? URL shrinking services are the same. … |
December 11th, 2007 at 8:30 am
yes I believe it too, it once happened with me… thank god I quickly learned from it and improved.
January 19th, 2008 at 7:56 am
TinyURLs are opaque, hiding the ultimate destination from a web user. This can be used to send people unwittingly to sites that offend their sensibilities, or crash or compromise their computer using browser vulnerabilities. To help combat such abuse, TinyURL allows a user to set a cookie-based preference such that TinyURL stops at the TinyURL website, giving a preview of the final link, when that user clicks TinyURLs. Substituting preview.tinyurl.com for tinyurl.com in the URL is another way of stopping at a preview of the final link before clicking through to it. Opaqueness is also leveraged by spammers, who can use such links in spam (mostly blog spam), bypassing URL blacklists.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:41 am
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