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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 41 points 4 months ago

When Google announced in 2018 that it was shutting down goo.gl, the company encouraged developers to migrate to Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL) — which has also since been deprecated.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Typical silicon valley communists

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Firebase can eat my heckin butt

[-] Speaker@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I just don't get why you would bother to shut this down. A domain name costs nothing, and the entire infrastructure of the service is like one database table and 500 lines of code running on some FaaS platform. This is the easiest way to do click tracking, which is like 80% of their stupid business.

[-] CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

I suspect google's long game is to eliminate the concept of domains in the public mind and turn them entirely into background infrastructure. Who types in a domain? there is only search bar at top of chrome (the only browser). Google is the gatekeeper of all internet.

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

Very clever to leave the internet covered in broken links with your brand name.

[-] Speaker@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

Holy shit, this is totally it. lathe-of-heaven

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