https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy . . . literally, “not my circus, not my monkey;” figuratively, “not my problem.” — Polish saying
I guess monkeys are “problems” in Poland, and circuses are where “problems” come from. If it’s not your monkey, and it’s not even from your circus, then it’s not your problem. — https://goo.gl/X7VEKG
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Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
JULY 18, 2024
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In 2018, we announced the deprecation and transition of Google URL Shortener 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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Once again a demonstration of the Internet axiom, “If you’re not paying of a product, then you are the PRODUCT.” Sometimes even if you are paying, it still gets “deprecated” — a fancy word for “FU, we don’t need you”! For example, Pocket from Mozilla. In this case, a service is disappearing.
https://umatechnology.org/what-does-it-mean-when-an-app-gets-sherlocked-by-apple/
Being “Sherlocked” is a term that encapsulates the dramatic and often ruthless dynamics between smaller developers and larger tech companies like Apple. It serves as a reminder of how innovation and competition can shape the tech landscape, sometimes to the detriment of those who initially paved the way.
Not just APPLE, but GOOGLE and MICROSOFT do it as well. Without the decency of acquiring the original developer. Not that “guaranties” the product or service will survive. Some are acquired to kill the competition.
There is no doubt in my mind that Google intended to SHERLOCK BITLY (https://bitly.com/pages/products/url-shortener) but for whatever reason they decided not to. I suspect that there was not margin in it for Google. So after “pushing” it, like so many other GOOGLE “products and services” they give it the FU treatment and “deprecate” it.
Sad for the Users who used it and good for BITLY.
And, for anyone who still “trusts” Gooferment to be a fair referee with respect to anti-trust issues, why do you think “corporations” “contribute” aka payoff politicians and bureaucrats?
Now I have to go and replace all “goo.gl” uses in my blog. Argh!
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