Google’s shortened links will stop working next year
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- 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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Wait, people outside Google were allowed to use it? Huh, I don't think I've ever seen that in the wild.
Initially everybody could use them, then they just closed the service but the links kept working.
TIL Google had a URL shortener.