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I interpreted "inactive" as the link that the shortener is linking to is not responding.


No. Inactive means that the short URL hasn't been accessed in a while.


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.


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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