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What is this trying to protect from? You see the actual URL in the tweet. Are you worried about redirects, if so why?

You don't always see the URL, sometimes it's truncated or just the t.co link, it's not very consistent.

Additionally if I want to share a URL with friends it's usually polluted with all sorts of nonsense query parameters, this tool strips them and gives you a nice clean one.

As for the tracking element yeah, the link shortening services will still see my IP connecting to the service, doing a head request, just with a different user agent (whatever the one go's stdlib sets). One extra layer could be to move the go service out of the network, but tbh I didn't start this project with these considerations in mind

Your clicks being logged by Twitter.

It’s not like the original URL is somehow encoded in the short URL, so this bot still has to request from t.co (and everywhere in between) to get the target.

The proxy is resolving all links, therefore denying twitter the information on which links you actually click (see also ad nauseum).

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It only resolves the links navigated to, right? It shows you the interstitial page, but only when you try to navigate to the link.

It does enable you to get the clean link and share that.

And google, facebook, reddit, everyone. I suppose it is another thing to push back against, though.

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