#killedbygoogle
- Google’s URL shortening service goo.gl links will stop working on August 25th, 2025, resulting in 404 errors.
- Starting August 23rd, 2024, goo.gl links will show an interstitial page warning users of the upcoming shutdown.
- Google initially suggested migrating to Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL), which has also since been deprecated.
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I’m sure many people chose this one over other shortners because they assumed it would outlast the others. 🤦♀️
So many links are going to go dead because of this. I’m sure plenty of software out there used this to automatically shorten links for posting on social media etc.
Remember: never trust google
Archive.org offering to step in and help if google will hand over the domain and db
Which they probably won’t…
Of course not. Google would never give up that domain. Especially not if there is no money in it for them.
URL lengthening will continue as planned.
Wait, people outside Google were allowed to use it? Huh, I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in the wild.