Comments on: I Don’t Trust Short URLs http://blog.websitestyle.com/index.php/2009/04/15/i-dont-trust-short-urls/ Various Epiphanies of a Technical Mind Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:20:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Nicole http://blog.websitestyle.com/index.php/2009/04/15/i-dont-trust-short-urls/comment-page-1/#comment-72219 Nicole Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:26:08 +0000 http://blog.websitestyle.com/?p=432#comment-72219 Yep. If I follow someone I usually know their website. In that case - if I see a shortened url off their domain, I would have no problem clicking it. Yep. If I follow someone I usually know their website. In that case – if I see a shortened url off their domain, I would have no problem clicking it.

]]> By: Nicole http://blog.websitestyle.com/index.php/2009/04/15/i-dont-trust-short-urls/comment-page-1/#comment-72218 Nicole Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:25:18 +0000 http://blog.websitestyle.com/?p=432#comment-72218 @Erick - People who believe that 'short url's are perfectly fine' and yet say 'don't click on crap you don't know' are obviously the reason why web site owners need to handle this obviously conflicting decision for people so they don't have to. @Erick – People who believe that ‘short url’s are perfectly fine’ and yet say ‘don’t click on crap you don’t know’ are obviously the reason why web site owners need to handle this obviously conflicting decision for people so they don’t have to.

]]> By: Lawrence Rolograaf http://blog.websitestyle.com/index.php/2009/04/15/i-dont-trust-short-urls/comment-page-1/#comment-72217 Lawrence Rolograaf Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:19:20 +0000 http://blog.websitestyle.com/?p=432#comment-72217 Hi Nicole, I am a little paranoid on this issue as well. But a question for you: If I (<a href="http://twitter.com/Rolograaf" rel="nofollow">@Rolograaf</a>) was your twitterfriend and you got a short url like <a href="http://rolograaf.nl/plp" rel="nofollow">http://rolograaf.nl/plp</a> would you trust that? (I can make my own short url's with a free wordpress plugin called <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pretty-link/" rel="nofollow">pretty link</a>) 1) you maybe would not know it was a short link directing or cloacking to another url 2) you would trust the domain as it would be known to you I am using my own short url's a lot, so I like to know if there is any resistance clicking them... Greetings Lawrence <a href="http://rolograaf.nl/com" rel="nofollow">Rolograaf</a> PS the used short url is pointing to the <a href="http://rolograaf.nl/plp" rel="nofollow">Pretty Link Pro</a> version, which is not free but all it's money worth... By: Erick http://blog.websitestyle.com/index.php/2009/04/15/i-dont-trust-short-urls/comment-page-1/#comment-72214 Erick Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:46:10 +0000 http://blog.websitestyle.com/?p=432#comment-72214 The article is paranoia drivel. Short URLs are perfectly fine. Use a proper tool to recognize fake/phished URLs. Get Firefox. Don't click on crap you don't know. Use a shortener such as Snipurl, they've been around since 2001 (before tinyurl launched with its 5 lines of code and one feature), they offer a truly short url with "sn.im" (you can also use snipurl.com, snipr.com, or snurl.com) and they offer much nicer previews: for example, http://snipr.com/asspire (original snip) http://peek.snipr.com/asspire (preview version) The article is paranoia drivel. Short URLs are perfectly fine. Use a proper tool to recognize fake/phished URLs. Get Firefox. Don’t click on crap you don’t know. Use a shortener such as Snipurl, they’ve been around since 2001 (before tinyurl launched with its 5 lines of code and one feature), they offer a truly short url with “sn.im” (you can also use snipurl.com, snipr.com, or snurl.com) and they offer much nicer previews: for example,

http://snipr.com/asspire (original snip)
http://peek.snipr.com/asspire (preview version)

]]> By: Nicole http://blog.websitestyle.com/index.php/2009/04/15/i-dont-trust-short-urls/comment-page-1/#comment-69852 Nicole Thu, 14 May 2009 16:04:03 +0000 http://blog.websitestyle.com/?p=432#comment-69852 The TinyURL preview doesn't say on the site if it opens on their server or is opened via a ping through your browser. Checking today, the there is a notice on the preview feature in the FAQ's that say <a href="http://tiny.cc/faq.php" rel="nofollow">all previews have been disabled</a>. Not sure how long it will be disabled - but it again proves to be an unreliable solution to a long-term problem. The TinyURL preview doesn’t say on the site if it opens on their server or is opened via a ping through your browser.

Checking today, the there is a notice on the preview feature in the FAQ’s that say all previews have been disabled.

Not sure how long it will be disabled – but it again proves to be an unreliable solution to a long-term problem.

]]> By: huggie http://blog.websitestyle.com/index.php/2009/04/15/i-dont-trust-short-urls/comment-page-1/#comment-69753 huggie Wed, 06 May 2009 04:24:09 +0000 http://blog.websitestyle.com/?p=432#comment-69753 Tiny URL now has a preview feature. You can take a look at the URL before you hop onto the site. Tiny URL now has a preview feature. You can take a look at the URL before you hop onto the site.

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