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Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 16:18:52 UTC Jonathan Corbet

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.
In conversation about 4 months ago from social.kernel.org permalink
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1. Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
  
  Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.
2. No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.
  
  goo.gl/ - search results
Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Monday, 11-Sep-2023 16:36:25 UTC Jonathan Corbet
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@liw @neil @pwaring Surprisingly, I have a *lot* of sympathy for people trying to earn their living with their writing. It's not an easy path, and you have to pick your poison... whether it's overt paywalls, annoying popups, or surveillance advertising, it's going to be annoying to people.

We've found a solution that works well enough for LWN - at least, well enough to keep us from having to get real jobs - but I'm not sure what the best solution is in a general sense.

In conversation about a year ago from social.kernel.org permalink

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