As a general rule, I will never click a link unless it clearly states where it’s taking me. Except I needed to see what the error meant, so I clicked open on it. Yay interstitial ads! 😠

  • stevestevesteve@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    28 days ago

    I’m trying to figure out why 😕 it adds a third party dependency and isn’t really any easier to copy (e.g. by hand) than a more human-readable url. What are they saving 15 bytes of text or something?

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    28 days ago

    BTW, with bitly at least, you can add a + to the end and you can see the destination before you choose to visit.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        28 days ago

        If a for-profit org gives something out for free, even if its OSS, you are likely contributing to their profits in different ways.

        • Iced Raktajino@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
          1·
          28 days ago

          That’s not wrong, but in this case, PlatformIO isn’t showing these ads, bit [dot] ly is. AFAIK, only bitly gets the ad money.

              • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
                2·
                28 days ago

                bit(dot)ly is just a link shortener; my guess is that the promised documentation is indeed behind it.

                But - and I’m just spitballing here - by going through a third party, they can collect precious user data for which they probably have a contract with MS, which brings me back to my original comment.