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Is the Web Heading Toward Redirect Hell?

Posted by timothy on from the here-let-me-bounce-you-a-few-times dept.

Ant snips from Royal Pingdom this excerpt: "Google is doing it. Facebook is doing it. Yahoo is doing it. Microsoft is doing it. And soon Twitter will be doing it. We're talking about the apparent need of every web service out there to add intermediate steps to sample what we click on before they send us on to our real destination. This has been going on for a long time and is slowly starting to build into something of a redirect hell on the Web. And it has a price."

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  1. To be honest the web was getting a bit fast... by youn · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... so they had to find yet another way to slow things down... so the web could live up to its reputation of "world wide wait" ;)

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  2. My Idea by wbav · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to create a redirect loop. Just imagine, google to tinyurl to bit.ly to dilv.it back to google.

    Or you could always just make a really long way to get to someone who'll never give you up, never let you down.

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  3. Re:It's a shame too... by mpicker0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I prefer to use "lengthened" URLs: http://hugeurl.com/.

  4. Shady URL's by sirrunsalot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personally, I find the trend of redirecting to innocent sites via shady URL's much more alarming: http://5z8.info/foodporn_e0g0l_taliban-meetup

    (I promise I'll get modded "troll" by someone who glanced at the link and assumed the worst. Hard to blame them, but I do love using those links whenever possible...)

  5. Re:It's a shame too... by zerocool^ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Myself, I prefer shady urls.

    http://www.shadyurl.com/

    http://slashdot.org/
    becomes
    http://5z8.info/aryanbr0ther00d_l9e5b_malicious-cookie

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