• Cloudless ☼
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    12 years ago

    But what’s the point of shortening it? I want to see the source before clicking on a link.

    • @[email protected]
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      302 years ago

      He likely wasn’t responsible for shortening it, Washington post did it automatically when sharing the article. Everything does this nowadays Google maps adds trackers to the url when sharing as well. I agree it’s annoying but not many good ways around it.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        especially on mobile. On desktop, where you have a keyboard and mouse, and even tools like browser extensions or whatever it’s definitely easier.