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poyu
4 months ago
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Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deacti...
I interpreted "inactive" as the link that the shortener is linking to is not responding.
OutOfHere
4 months ago
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No. Inactive means that the short URL hasn't been accessed in a while.
wltr
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But that doesn’t make any sense. A link might be printed in a book. Nobody accessed it, yet they might at some point. Such a service is quite good for printing in books, instead of QR-codes.
OutOfHere
4 months ago
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It makes sense in a technical capacity, not in an epistemic one. I never claimed it is the right thing to do.
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