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@RobertDoroftei There is no such thing as "safe for everyone". For
example, I wouldn't be shocked at extreme furry porn. However, I would
be shocked by people failing to understand the distributed the nature
of the internet and pushing for centralized infrastructures such as
thelastshorteneryoulleverneed.com - well, what do you know. Also, this
is not about simplifying life. Being in a brainwave factory, being fed
uniform foodpaste via tubes would simplify a lot of lives - this
doesn't mean it is desirable.
On the same subject, read "Why I do not want to work at Google", a
piece by Kragen Javier Sitaker:
http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2011-August/000938.html
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:12 AM, RobertDoroftei
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@nddrylliog
wouldn't it be great to have some sort of authority: safeurl.com or something like that, that will be the place where to create a URL to share that will automatically check the URL for unwanted content and when people would see safeurl.com/?the_url everybody will know that the URL is verified by a higher authority and it is safe to click on ? that would simplify life for everyone
On Aug 29, 2011, at 12:07 AM, nddrylliog wrote:
> _sigh_
>
> @RobertDoroftei if it's *.google.com then, yes, technically-aware
> people will know it has to be googley somehow. HOWEVER, it's entirely
> possible that non-technical people will consider 9sad8f.google.com
> untrustworthy, considering they have no idea why stuff is separated by
> dots anyway, and why order matters. People are much more likely to
> ignore stuff on the right than on the left.
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:04 PM, RobertDoroftei
> ***@***.***
> wrote:
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> > @nddrylliog
> >
> > this is not about scam, if you see 9sad8f.google.com/whatever/you/want/here probably you'll just ignore the whole string at the beginning, if the domain has weight then people are just taking for granted that it's not some trick to get into a scam of some sort.
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I prefer the real URL, #1
How often do you ignore links because they use an URL shortener? I know I do, all the time, I simply assume that people using them on anything but twitter are hiding something, play with open cards if you want people to click. You cannot really provide both the shortened URL and the actual URL, since they can diverge after you present it, or due to more malicious issues, like someone presenting a link to hacker news to the client, and on the actual click provide goatse.cx, not very nice.
The domain is much more important than the path, it is verified to some extent, I know youtube is youtube, anyone can fake anything in the path without any technical knowledge.
Mum printing flyers might want a short url, but bit.ly/98af79 is not as typeable as mums-cookies.com/special-deal, even though it is much shorter. People might even remember it! Use nice URLs to begin with, don't try to get them via a shortener.
If you are A/B testing links to some third party, you are probably caring a bit too much about something that hardly matters. Try to improve your own pages instead of your links to someone elses.