Google is turning off its URL shortener – breaking every link that ever used it

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It is unclear to me if this only impacts developer URLs (are those a different thing?), or if all user created short URLs will stop working too. If it's the latter, then a lot of links on the old web will break, and that will be so sad.

This is the latest announcement in question: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-li...

In 2018 they said goo.gl links won't stop working: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/goo-gl/246569/

The developer focus is because Google has considered it a developer offering, but this applies to all goo.gl links, AFAICT; they explicitly say they are turning off the link serving function at that domain.

Shutting down:

(128 points, 6 years ago, 55 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16719272

(81 points, 6 years ago, 56 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16722817

(59 points, 6 years ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16902752

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