Why? Did they ask anyone if it was okay? Anything sensitive at those links? Anything at those links people didn't want or need anymore? Maybe people thought those links were dead? Did Google provide a way to cancel those links first?

It's like when the GPT links were archived and publicly available that contained sensitive information.

It's a link, what privacy can one expect?

Especially with short links there's always the possibility of entering ~6 characters and getting a hit. So I believe expecting any secrecy from urls is silly.

That's like posting your passwords on Twitter because "Why would anyone find my account"

Sometimes to preserve history, you just have to go do what you gotta do.

After all, these are just short links. They link to other things on the Internet. Which is inherently public anyways.

You cannot expect privacy via a simple URL. These short URLs are short, hence programmatically scraping all the URLs.

The GPT Links situation is nothing like this imo. Both however do come down to the stupid human aspect.

If you want something to remain private, don't post it on the public internet.