In short, stop using brief URLs

Macworld
Feb 2, 2016, 3:16 pm713 pts
URL shorteners were all the rage about 15 years ago. The reasons for them were extensive and varied. Email programs had bad limitations at embedding or wrapping pasted URLs, and a URL longer than 70 or 80 characters might break. Some characters didn’t encode properly. Marketers wanted you to click on a link…

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