Shortened URLs are convenient for cleaning up long links, but they also hide the real destination. If you want to avoid ...

Shrtn.co is a URL shortener with a difference – it’s an easy way to earn money from links to shopping sites without having to sign up to affiliate schemes. Affiliate link schemes can be a good way of ...

URL shortening services are widely used on the desktop in microblogging clients. In this tutorial we will show you how to make a GTK+ textbox automatically shorten ...

The most recent update to the Google Android app has startled users as they notice the mysterious "search.app" links being generated when sharing content and links from the Google app externally. A ...

Want to upset your workplace or school's IT department? Want to trip automated systems? Phishy URL is a perverse URL shortener-type service that creates eminently shady URLs packed with malware ...

Link Rot: URL shortening is a technique designed to turn long web addresses into shorter, more manageable links. This process can make life easier for web visitors, but it can also introduce a new ...

Google announced that they will continue to support some links created by the deprecated goo.gl URL shortening service, saying that 99% of the shortened URLs receive no traffic. They were previously ...