DecentURL (http://decenturl.com) was created to circumvent problems like these. It was created by a Reddit user to do something like this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=r8JexiISPNk which becomes http://youtube.decenturl.com/stop-motion No more goatse? -Nick Stroller wrote: > On 4 Jun 2008, at 18:12, Joseph Reeves wrote: > >> ... >> TinyURL on the other hand... Why would anyone ever use that? I never >> click on links unless I know where they link to. Here's a plan for >> abuse: >> >> 1: Discover browser 0-day exploit >> 2: Put up a gallery of FreeRunner pictures on a website >> 3: Point a tinyurl at the gallery >> 4: Wait until everyone's linked to it and is clicking it >> 5: Change gallery to 0-day exploit >> >> Or even easier: >> >> 1: Link to goatse. >> >> TinyURL takes all the best practice Internet guidlines you try and >> teach people and ruins them all. Can't stand it. >> > > TinyURL itself protects you from this. > > All you do is go to <http://tinyurl.com/preview.php>, click on the > "enable previews" link and it sets a cookie on your PC. Thereafter, > everytime you click on a TinyURL link it shows you first what website > the link redirects to, and you then have to click again to make a > "manual redirection". > > Maybe your email client is perfect, and never has a problem with > mangled URLs, but for the rest of us TinyURL is very useful. > > Stroller. > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
