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Google’s shortened links will stop working next year (www.theverge.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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#killedbygoogle

  • Google's URL shortening service goo.gl links will stop working on August 25th, 2025, resulting in 404 errors.
  • Starting August 23rd, 2024, goo.gl links will show an interstitial page warning users of the upcoming shutdown.
  • Google initially suggested migrating to Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL), which has also since been deprecated.
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

the database even for hundreds of thousands of entries shouldn't be huge

Hundreds of thousands of entries would be negligible (at 1000 bytes average per entry, 500k entries would be half a gigabyte) but the issue is that a full archive would be around 36 billion entries (making that archive around 34 TB, but probably smaller because the average link size is likely much lower than 1000 characters).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Interesting - how do we know it's 36 billion entries? I just estimated that it hadn't been used that much based on almost never seeing anyone actually use it...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know for sure, but that’s the scale I would expect (billions) and the number came from https://www.seroundtable.com/google-goo-gl-urls-to-404-37758.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Ah, yes, I'm off by a lot then, thanks!