[PLUG-TALK] TinyURL

[Brent Rieck]

Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> This is a reminder to use tinyurl.com

I actually dislike <some synonym for short or small>url.com urls as they 
obfuscate the actual destination I'm going to.  On more than one 
occasion I've clicked on one and gotten redirected to some porn popup 
hell (for example), not that I'm a prude and I'm offended by naked 
people, I just don't like being tricked.  I seriously doubt anybody here 
would do that, but whenever I see one of the shorted urls that sounds 
interesting I have to consider for a brief moment how much I trust the 
person who has posted it and doesn't give me a chance to evaluate the 
destination until I'm already there.

Just my perspective,
Brent