This is basically the cheapest thing imaginable to keep running on the grounds that combatting link rot is good for the web, but I guess the ship has already sunk on anyone having any faith at all in Google's trustworthiness as a platform

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This is basically the cheapest thing imaginable to keep running on the grounds that combatting link rot is good for the web, but I guess the ship has already sunk on anyone having any faith at all in Google's trustworthiness as a platform
It's truly mindboggling. They oculd have a way to keep a static set of these redirects working for so little money, and yet.
It's interesting the post has been edited since it went up - the tone in the original version ("Today, the time has come to turn off...") was frankly even worse. https://web.archive.org/web/20240718191530/https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/