Fu.gg - safe for work urls

fu.gg

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Nice idea.

However, the link I created for HN does not show any preview: http://fu.gg/kE1Lov? :-(

Also it would be good to see the real URL somewhere on the peek preview page before clicking the visit button. That alone would often be enough to decide whether I want to visit the site or not.

Thank you! About the HN link, they don't allow showing their site in iframes, so that's why. i've considered making screenshots to show for those that has the X-Frame-Options (deny/same-origin) header. Showing the real url is a good idea, i'll add that right now - thanks :)

Ouch, just noticed that HN strips the question mark from the end of the url as well.

How does it know a url is safe for work? Also doesn't "fu.gg" kind of seem like it's asking for it?

It doesn't, but the fu.gg url should tip of the recipient that he should be careful. Then proper precautions can be taken. Either wait to click until no one is around, or add a ? mark to use the peek version.

The sender/poster could also send the url with "?" added to let the recipient peek slowly.

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