{"id":186,"date":"2008-03-25T19:46:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T19:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/?p=186"},"modified":"2008-03-25T19:46:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T19:46:38","slug":"url-shortening-services-are-a-scourge-on-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"URL shortening services are a scourge on the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t understand the need for services such as <em>tinyurl<\/em> and others like them. They obfuscate links. I pretty much refuse to use them, either as a consumer or a producer.<\/p>\n<p>They seems to have been started because emailing links to web pages caused a lot of problems. Many email programs will insert line breaks on long lines of text. This will usually corrupt the URL.<\/p>\n<p>But they are completely unnecessary in modern email clients. Now I see some forum moderators are demanding URLs to be shortened when posting content. Again, completely unnecessary because most forum software include tags to allow the naming of URLs.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t understand the need for services such as tinyurl and others like them. They obfuscate links. I pretty much refuse to use them, either as a consumer or a producer. They seems to have been started because emailing links &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/?p=186\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlindner.macmess.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}