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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

All goo.gl short links will die.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Wow, another project abandoned by Google. Add it to the pile.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

melt it down and it add it to the rest

[-] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Good. There's no way Google could possibly afford to keep a service like this running

[-] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

I don't understand why though. A url redirection service would cost them practically nothing to run.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Because they hate us, I can't think of another explanation

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Took long enough for QR codes to catch on. I wonder how low usage got before the killed it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Living in Japan back in 2009 was enough to convince me, really quite something it took this long for it to become standard, still have my old app I used to have to use to even read them back in the day on my phone.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Lol.

I am glad I no longer use google for anything beyond bulk photo storage for which i pay monthly. Paying monthly at least makes me feel like it wont be going away versus anything else they offer free of charge.

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