Open post Joe Lucas @josephtlucas@fosstodon.org · 47mo ago Replying to @timhutton@mathstodon.xyz "Bit.ly s̶h̶o̶r̶t̶e̶n̶s̶ [ruins] 600 million links per month. .. Bit.ly makes money by charging for access to a̶g̶g̶r̶e̶g̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶d̶a̶t̶a̶ [your activity on the internet collected by tracking cookies] created as a result of many people using the shortened URLs." Do you think wikipedia would accept my edits? Context: We are trying to restore shortened URLs in the Twitter archive but they're a pain. Meanwhile Bit.ly is worth $64 million. @timhutton@mathstodon.xyz a pain just because of how slow it is to make the request and get redirected? I was playing with this too.