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Category: URL Shorteners
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Needed a URL shortener, first place I went to find one was privacytools.io.
I don't know what the community consensus is but I really don't want to use bitly or
tinyurl. Any suggestions to this end might perhaps make for a new category?
I mostly use
jekyll-redirect
plugin with GitHub pages and have many files like this:I know that there are actual FOSS URL shorteners, but I don't remember any of their names.
Why any shorteners at all?
In my particular case as an example, I often link articles to a groups I'm in on whatever mobile chat app I'm using. Sadly, not all links are create equally and posting a massive link to an already cluttered discussion on a tiny screen is just messy.
This use case is unique to my situation and of course doesn't really apply to why this category should exist on privacytools.io. To answer that question: I thought that since I came here looking for a URL shortener, perhaps others have to.
I found these that have the latest commit within two years.
Thanks for taking the time and searching. I'm looking through them as speak.
Edit: These projects look healthy and mature for the most part. I'm sure a more detailed analysis is needed before making it onto privacytools.io but it certainly is a starting point.
Quick comparison:
Yourls: https://yourls.org/
Docker: https://hub.docker.com/_/yourls
Documention: https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS/wiki
Password/timelimit:
https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS/wiki/PasswordlessAPI
Polr: https://polrproject.org/
Documentation: https://docs.polrproject.org/en/latest/
Password: Can't find 'password' in docs' search but requests made in project's issues does show passwords/time limits as requested features
https://github.com/cydrobolt/polr/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+password
Safari: https://github.com/cleverdevil/Polr.safariextension
kutt: https://kutt.it/
Chrome/Firefox: https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt#browser-extensions
Docker: https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt/tree/develop/docker-examples
pygmy: https://pygy.co
Documentation in readme.md: https://github.com/amitt001/pygmy
Docker: https://hub.docker.com/r/amit19/pygmy
@subsign I was thinking to start a URL shortener as a privacytools.io service. Would you use it? I personally like https://demo.polr.me/
Only issue is, our URL is not exactly short. But it would still add more privacy to it, since it will remove the referrer from analytic tools.
"short.privacytools.io" could be a possible subdomain for this.
@BurungHantu1605 I would certainly make use of it. The plus side of using short.privacytools.io is that the root domain and thus awareness gets spread around
short.privacytools.io/abcde is much better than https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/1523/can-a-us-citizen-be-required-to-provide-the-authentication-key-for-encrypted-dat.
Since the three services on privacytools.io do have alternatives listed in their respective categories and can be self hosted, I guess a discussion should be had on wether url shortener alternatives be added and do those projects meet the privacy standards of the site?
Could it be just one letter such as
s.privacytools.io
ort.privacytools.io
or eventiny.privacytools.io
(as everyone probably knows tinyurl)? Orr.privacytools.io
for redirect?How about https://law.stackexchange.com/q/1523 (click the share button)? 😄 (I do understand what you mean though,even if I don't have any better example at hand right now.)
Haha, I thought someone was going to mention that. I just scanned privacytools.io looking for a long link 😛
I'll throw url.privacytools.io into the list of suggestions as well.
On a side note, I searched briefly for similar/shorter domain names and thought to contribute a donation for buying one. Thinking about it more however, using privacytools.io is indeed better for a number of different reasons.
I wanted to get a shorter domain but it looks like we're going with
link.privacytools.io
. Whatever! Haha. We're also going with YOURLS (probably) so we'll have a page up in a few days (it has to be actually made and designed ourselves...).We're also planning a Javascript tool that site owners can add to their site that'll change all outgoing links like
http://example.com
to something likehttps://link.privacytools.io/@http://example.com
which will be super cool since it'll strip referrer headers from all those links 😄As far as third party URL shorteners go, I don't really think there are any that would meet the requirements to be recommended by PTIO. Does anyone have any other suggestions? We'll probably just only list our own once it's live, but because it's the only one we can trust, not because we're biased or anything. So if anyone knows of good alternatives speak up and we can include them as well!
@JonahAragon Was the plan on
link.privacytools.io
cancelled/forgotten or did something happen?I was reminded by a /r/privacytoolsIO thread on privacy oriented bit.ly alternatives