The whole point about tinyurls being untrustworthy is that they hide the
real url and you never know what you are actually clicking on. Many
unscrupulous people take advantage of that to send malicious links to
all sorts of places and so now people are hesitant to click on such a
link unless he knows and trusts the person who sent it. Someone else
pointed out that with is.gd it is possible to preview the site to see
where you are going before actually following the link. It has nothing
to do with a link getting corrupted.
Dale Erwin
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On 2/24/2013 3:33 PM, Ernie Kurtz wrote:
Thanks, Jeff, you answered my question thoroughly: is.gd URLs are trustworthy
so long as the site to which they point is legitimate. I assume the same is
true for tinyurls, but with so many being warned about them, it would seem
wiser not to use tinyurl (even though I prefer all lower case to is.gd's
melange). And from what the link you sent says, it seems wise to avoid .ly
domains. What is gd, by the way, Greenland?
Thanks again.
ernie
On Feb 24, 2013, at 3:06 PM, Jeffrey Deutsch wrote:
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Ernie Kurtz<kurtz...@umich.edu> wrote:
James and Jeffrey and Andrea, thank you! I do appreciate the warnings.
Now a related question: is it possible to corrupt an already tied URL? I am
working toward primarily print publication: if I put a tinyurl or is.gd link
in print, for the reader to key in, can it somehow be corrupted? Even if there
is an electronic version of what I write, can a link given in that format be
corrupted? I have been under the impression that malware lurked in URLs posted
online. Is that incorrect?
ernie kurtz
Hello Ernie,
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by a URL being corrupted. I can say
that at least with is.gd, once the URL is set it can't be changed
(including being redirected to a malware or other bad site). So once
you shorten a link to a good site, it stays that way (as long as the
site itself does).
Incidentally, if you're shortening a link yourself, reconsider the
wisdom of doing so in bit.ly:
http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2010/10/the-ly-domain-space-to-be-considered-unsafe/
(That URL comes from is.gd.)
PS: Feel free to call me Jeff - Thanks!
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