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Google’s shortened links will stop working next year

  • 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.
autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

If you ever used Google’s URL shortening service goo.gl before it was shut down in 2019, be warned — those links will stop working on August 25th, 2025.

Google announced in a blog post that “the time has come to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener” and that any links in the goo.gl* format will respond with a 404 error next year.

Ahead of the shutdown, goo.gl links will start showing an interstitial page on August 23rd, 2024, notifying users that “this link will no longer work in the near future.” This message will initially appear for a “percentage of existing links,’’ which will increase as the deadline draws closer.

Google is encouraging developers to update impacted links as soon as possible, however, as this interstitial page may cause disruptions to link redirections.

When Google announced in 2018 that it was shutting down goo.gl, the company encouraged developers to migrate to Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL) — which has also since been deprecated.

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paraphrand ,

I’m sure many people chose this one over other shortners because they assumed it would outlast the others. 🤦‍♀️

folekaule ,

So many links are going to go dead because of this. I’m sure plenty of software out there used this to automatically shorten links for posting on social media etc.

garretble ,
@garretble@lemmy.world avatar

Remember: never trust google

Olap ,

Archive.org offering to step in and help if google will hand over the domain and db

narc0tic_bird ,

Which they probably won’t…

Hazzia ,

Virgin Google vs Chad Archive.org

shinomoroll ,
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They didn’t find a profitable way to put ads in the shortening service

ReallyActuallyFrankenstein , (edited )

Google shuts down a lot of things, and usually there is nothing to do and parts of the internet break forever. But…I feel like this is one that would be cheap and at least possible to mitigate without Google’s help.

Crawl for all goo.gl links prior to the 2025 shutdown, cache and enter the link and the redirect link into a database, and create a simple open source in-line replacement extension for browsers that intercepts goo.gl links and replaces them with the real link. These are just URLs, so the database even for hundreds of thousands of entries shouldn’t be huge.

I mean, I’m not going to do it, but…

catloaf ,

Wait, people outside Google were allowed to use it? Huh, I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in the wild.

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