As a general rule, I will never click a link unless it clearly states where it’s taking me. Except I needed to see what the error meant, so I clicked open on it. Yay interstitial ads! 😠

  • stevestevesteve@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    4 months ago

    I’m trying to figure out why 😕 it adds a third party dependency and isn’t really any easier to copy (e.g. by hand) than a more human-readable url. What are they saving 15 bytes of text or something?

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    BTW, with bitly at least, you can add a + to the end and you can see the destination before you choose to visit.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      This is good to know, but bit . ly already got your precious data at that point.

      Browsers can also be configured to do this by default - or possibly only for bit . ly with some addon.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        If a for-profit org gives something out for free, even if its OSS, you are likely contributing to their profits in different ways.

        • Iced RaktajinoOPEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          That’s not wrong, but in this case, PlatformIO isn’t showing these ads, bit [dot] ly is. AFAIK, only bitly gets the ad money.

              • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
                5·
                4 months ago

                bit(dot)ly is just a link shortener; my guess is that the promised documentation is indeed behind it.

                But - and I’m just spitballing here - by going through a third party, they can collect precious user data for which they probably have a contract with MS, which brings me back to my original comment.