https://www.androidauthority.com/when-google-will-break-googl-links-3462692/
General technology
Google’s kiss of death is coming for your goo.gl links
- It’s time to replace your short links before the tech overlord breaks them.
By Mahmoud Itani
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In typical Google fashion, the company killed its goo.gl short link generator on March 30, 2019. Since then, users have still been able to access goo.gl links created before the generator’s shutdown. However, this will change next year, as Google will completely sunset the service, breaking the short links in the process.
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https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
JUL 18, 2024
Sumit Chandel Developer Relations Engineer
Eldhose Mathokkil Babu Software Engineer
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In 2018, we announced the deprecation and transition of Google URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links because of the changes we’ve seen in how people find content on the internet, and the number of new popular URL shortening services that emerged in that time. This meant that we no longer accepted new URLs to shorten but that we would continue serving existing URLs.
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And off to the Google Graveyard, it goes.
Unfortunately I was on a kick using them on my blog for a while until for whatever reason, I stopped. Now I had to waste two hours correcting that link headed mistake. Sigh! Some links were broken and one of my favorite authors died unnoticed. But I did find some old forgotten content that made me laugh, cry, and wonder where my skills went. Some of the content was timeless. Me not so much!
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