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Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
A quick search on lore.kernel.org:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F
...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
A quick search on lore.kernel.org:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%2F
...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.
developers.googleblog.comGoogle URL Shortener links will no longer be available- Google Developers BlogUnderstand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.
Will the webmasters run a script to dereference all the URL shorteners? They can.
@albertcardona I am thinking about hacking together a URL-replacement script for LWN. Doing that on lore, though (or the LWN email archive) would be a rather more painful prospect, to say the least. I would honestly be surprised if it actually got done.
@albertcardona @corbet not all of them can, not all of them will. You could also try to query the shortener as much as possible before the shutdown and thus export as much as possible of the mappings.